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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to include field separator if there are blank fields? Post 77694 by ReV on Tuesday 12th of July 2005 07:42:10 AM
Old 07-12-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by vino
From what you are saying and given your output

num1f;;;;num5f

Code:
sed -e 's/[ ][ ]*/;/g'

I tried using
sed -e 's/ */;/g'
but it will take consecutive blank fields as one blank field. Can anyone help?


So, shouldnt it take the consecutive blank fields and convert it to ; ?

What's the output you are getting with your sed script ?

Vino
Hi,

num1f;;;;num5f
is my required output.
But when I use sed -e 's/ */;/g', my output is:
num1f;num5f

I hope I am clear with my description Smilie
 

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vino-passwd(1)							   User Commands						    vino-passwd(1)

NAME
vino-passwd - change vino login password SYNOPSIS
vino-passwd [--help] [--version] DESCRIPTION
vino-passwd is a command line tool to change the vino login password. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options for the command vino-passwd is included below. -?, --help display this help and exit -v, --version output version information and exit ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-remote-desktop | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
vino-server(1), vino-preferences(1), attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5) NOTES
Written by Halton Huo, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008. SunOS 5.11 15 Aug 2008 vino-passwd(1)
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