03-10-2019
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Originally Posted by
Don Cragun
Hi johnprogrammer,
Welcome to the UNIX and Linux forums.
Thank you.
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Note that the problem being addressed in this thread didn't say anything about only wanting to remove spaces between parentheses on lines that also contain the string "httpd".
Note that the problem being addressed in this thread didn't say anything about only wanting to remove a single space between parentheses.
Note that the problem being addressed in this thread didn't say anything about only wanting to remove spaces between parentheses only lines that have exactly one <space> before the first parenthesis on that line.
Those were what I understood.
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Note that the problem being addressed in this thread didn't say anything about removing lines that do not contain spaces between parentheses.
Yes, I knew that, but I considered my answer as a good starting point.
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Please be careful about saying that your code works when it looks like the code that you have provided makes several assumptions that do not seem to match the requirements being addressed in this thread.
This is important, and you are right. I thought a few times to edit the post, and write: "I think this should work". But unfortunately I didn't. Sorry.
Last edited by johnprogrammer; 03-10-2019 at 03:37 AM..
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