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05-26-2015

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awk print string with removing all spaces

Hi all,

I want to set 10 set of strings into a variable where:

removing all spaces within each string
change the delimiter from "|" to ","

Currently, I've the below script like this:

Code:

Table=`ten character strings with spaces in-between and each string with delimiter "|" | tr -d ' ' | awk -F'|' '{print $1","$2","$3","$4","$5","$6","$7","$8","$9","$10}'`

Today I've got an error 0403-029 There is not enough memory available now. while running the tr -d ' ' (delete space characters) so I suspect either I've used too many pipelines or the tr command (translate or delete) itself may eat up the memory.

I'd like to know if there is a way to remove all spaces within each string within the command:

Code:

awk -F'|' '{print $1","$2","$3","$4","$5","$6","$7","$8","$9","$10}'`

So as to use less pipeline commands thus reduce the memory consumption

Thanks in advance

Paul

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NAME

       mdb-tables - Get listing of tables in an MDB database

SYNOPSIS

       mdb-tables [-S] [-1 | -d delimiter] database

DESCRIPTION

       mdb-tables is a utility program distributed with MDB Tools.

       It produces a list of tables contained within an MDB database in a format suitable for use in shell scripts.

OPTIONS

       -S     Show system tables. System tables are generally those beginning with 'MSys'

       -1     specifies that the tables should be listed 1 per line.

       -d delimiter
	      specifies an alternative delimiter. If no delimiter is specified, table names will be delimited by a tab character, or by newline if
	      the -1 option was specified.

NOTES

ENVIRONMENT

       MDB_JET3_CHARSET
	      Defines the charset of the input JET3 (access 97) file. Default is CP1252. See iconv(1).

       MDBICONV
	      Defines the output charset. Default is UTF-8. mdbtools must have been compiled with iconv.

       MDBOPTS
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	      o  use_index

	      o  no_memo

	      o  debug_like

	      o  debug_write

	      o  debug_usage

	      o  debug_ole

	      o  debug_row

	      o  debug_props

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       mdb-tables first appeared in MDB Tools 0.3.

SEE ALSO

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AUTHORS

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BUGS

       Access allows for tables to have spaces embeded in the table name.
	      You must specify a delimiter (-d) if you intend on piping the output of mdb-tables to a program such as awk or cut.

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