I would like to find an undetermined number of spaces and shorten them to one space. I am running Debian in mksh. Script running in #!/bin/sh. Sorry to not include all code. The program is too big and involves an online file... too much hassle to solve a simple issue.
Ex.,
I start with (pretend the periods are spaces),
"This . . . . sentence has . . . . . . an undetermined . . number of . spaces between . . . . . . each word."
The result would be:
"This sentence has an undetermined number of spaces."
What I have so far is working but extremely poor code:
I've tried several combinations to no effect. I've been reading up on awk in a tutorial, but so far no mention of this situation.
I need to grep for pattern "enable_cal = true".The problem is that different file has different no of spaces in that string.
for eg
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other one will have... (5 Replies)
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I'd like to create a variable with the value of X number of space( no Perl please), printf seems to work, but , in following example,10 spaces becomes 1 space when assinged to a variable, Why? other solutions are welcome.
$printf "=%10s=\n"
= =
$var=$(printf "=%10s=\n")
echo... (4 Replies)
which one of the following is the correct expression to ignore line with multiple spaces after any string
cat file | grep -v "xyz *$"
or
cat file | grep -v "xyz*$"
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Here is a weird question :)
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Hi guys,
I need a help ! I need do grab some string from file and then count n lines after that pattern. This is working fine, but my problem is that the string to be searched has spaces within, like an example :
LINK COUNTERS
what I am using is:
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Hi
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for example :
my string is "summer hot"
my code :for i in `cat position__list.txt`
do
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i'm looking for a command that allows me to print a specific number of spaces which i will provide.
something as simple as:
spaces=4
printf " " * $spaces
i'm looking for somethign that'll allow me to print a specific amount of spaces on a line.
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MYFILE=check_disks.sh
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printf '%s\n' $CHANUM
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