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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to remove spaces from a file selectively? Post 302919484 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 1st of October 2014 02:19:26 PM
Old 10-01-2014
First, let me be very clear: If you have a text file, feeding it through awk, grep, sed, and/or tr is not going to magically convert that text file into the proprietary format of a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet!

If you have the text file you have shown us in post #12 in this thread, you can create the output you say you want in that post as a text file using the command:
Code:
sed '3,$s/  / /' file.txt

 

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yodlpost(1)						    Your Own Document Language						       yodlpost(1)

NAME
yodlpost - Yodl post-processor SYNOPSIS
yodlpost [options] index yodlout [out] DESCRIPTION
The Yodl post processor is used to solve references into the converted text, and to split (where appropriate) the converted Yodl text in parts. Some conversions do not require post-processing, such as LaTeX, but most do. Therefore, in most cases a Yodl conversion consists of two phases: o First, yodl(1) is called, producing a raw output file and an associated index file; o Then, yodlpost(1) is called, converting these two files into a final document. Normally, yodl2...(1) scripts are used to perform complete Yodl conversions. OPTIONS
-x ext: extension of the out-s if different from out's extension itself. If omitted, and out has no extension, ypp (Yodl Post Processor) is used. SEE ALSO
yodlstriproff(1), yodl(1), yodlbuiltins(7), yodlconverters(1), yodlletter(7), yodlmacros(7), yodlmanpage(7), yodlverbinsert(1). BUGS
- AUTHOR
Frank B. Brokken (f.b.brokken@rug.nl), yodl_3.00.0.tar.gz 1996-2010 yodlpost(1)
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