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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Linux Commands needed for replacing variable number of spaces with a single , in a txt file Post 303016241 by RudiC on Monday 23rd of April 2018 05:53:27 AM
Old 04-23-2018
Welcome to the forum.

The first place to look at is the data creator, i.e. your SQL query. Can it be modified to supply exactly what you need without correction / adaption downstream? My SQL has become a bit rusty, but there exist settings to influence the output like set colsep , or functions to remove spaces e.g. trim(). Does this help?

Re. your request: does your tr version offer the -s (squeeze) option?
Code:
tr -s ' ' ',' < file
name,age,job,

If not, we need to dive deeper and resort to a small script like for awk or similar.
 

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