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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to remove spaces from a file selectively? Post 302919436 by Sharma331 on Wednesday 1st of October 2014 09:03:20 AM
Old 10-01-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Leaving out the code tags you hid all those multiple spaces from us thus leading to inappropriate solutions. With that new info, try
Code:
sed -r 's/ +/ /g; s/DATA //p; 1s/^[^ ]* //p; 2!d' file1
Date Name Age State
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
12 Sep 2014 14:00 EST Alia 22 Chennai
12 Sep 2014 14:00 EST Ashika 22 Chennai
12 Sep 2014 14:00 EST Bosky 22 Chennai
12 Sep 2014 14:00 EST Swati 22 Chennai

It gives an error to me saying sed -r is not recognized

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Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
How would you propose to distinguish that space from the one(s) before? In awk default, ALL spaces are the field separators, so they would be gone anyhow. In sed, there's no fields, so you would need to know the space count in order to remove that one...
The space count is one for that column which i want to remove
 

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clacon.f(3)							      LAPACK							       clacon.f(3)

NAME
clacon.f - SYNOPSIS
Functions/Subroutines subroutine clacon (N, V, X, EST, KASE) CLACON Function/Subroutine Documentation subroutine clacon (integerN, complex, dimension( n )V, complex, dimension( n )X, realEST, integerKASE) CLACON Purpose: CLACON estimates the 1-norm of a square, complex matrix A. Reverse communication is used for evaluating matrix-vector products. Parameters: N N is INTEGER The order of the matrix. N >= 1. V V is COMPLEX array, dimension (N) On the final return, V = A*W, where EST = norm(V)/norm(W) (W is not returned). X X is COMPLEX array, dimension (N) On an intermediate return, X should be overwritten by A * X, if KASE=1, A**H * X, if KASE=2, where A**H is the conjugate transpose of A, and CLACON must be re-called with all the other parameters unchanged. EST EST is REAL On entry with KASE = 1 or 2 and JUMP = 3, EST should be unchanged from the previous call to CLACON. On exit, EST is an estimate (a lower bound) for norm(A). KASE KASE is INTEGER On the initial call to CLACON, KASE should be 0. On an intermediate return, KASE will be 1 or 2, indicating whether X should be overwritten by A * X or A**H * X. On the final return from CLACON, KASE will again be 0. Author: Univ. of Tennessee Univ. of California Berkeley Univ. of Colorado Denver NAG Ltd. Date: November 2011 Further Details: Originally named CONEST, dated March 16, 1988. Last modified: April, 1999 Contributors: Nick Higham, University of Manchester References: N.J. Higham, 'FORTRAN codes for estimating the one-norm of a real or complex matrix, with applications to condition estimation', ACM Trans. Math. Soft., vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 381-396, December 1988. Definition at line 115 of file clacon.f. Author Generated automatically by Doxygen for LAPACK from the source code. Version 3.4.1 Sun May 26 2013 clacon.f(3)
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