How would I delete white spaces in a specified file?
Also, I'd like to know what command I would use to take something off a regular expression, and put it onto another.
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expression1 <take_off>
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expression2 (put here)
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Any help would be great, thanks! (10 Replies)
Hi,
I have a CSV file with footer information as below. The third value is the number of records in the file. Sometimes it contains both leading and trailing white spaces which i want to trim using awk.
C,FOOTER , 00000642
C,FOOTER , 00000707
C, FOOTER,... (2 Replies)
I have a variable that calls in a string from txt file. Problem is the string comes with an abundance of white spaces trailing it. Is there any easy way to trim the tailing white spaces off at the end? Thanks in advance. (9 Replies)
Hi,
Can anybody suggest me how to combine two strings with two or more white spaces and assign it to a variable?
E.g.
first=HAI
second=HELLO
third="$first $second" # appending strings with more than one white spaces
echo $third
this would print
HAI HELLO
Output appears... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file that has multiple spaces between characters. I want to delete or convert the multiple spaces into a single space. I think this can be done in "sed" but I only know the syntax to delete trailing or leading spaces. Can this be done with "sed" or awk?
I have a file that looks... (6 Replies)
Hello dear community!
I've recently written a BASH function for auto completion of options. It works like following: if a user types a command and then an argument to this command which starts with "^-" and then presses TAB, then 'user_command --help (or -h)' is invoked and possible options are... (0 Replies)
Hi All,
I am facing issues converting white spaces and tabs together in a file I am reading. Here is the command I am trying:
tr -s ' '@ | sort -t@ +1n filename
I guess the problem is that it is not converting the tabs to another delimiter. Also, I am supposed to accomplish this only using... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am having problem in deleting the leading spaces:-
cat x.csv
baseball,NULL,8798765,Most played
baseball,NULL,8928192,Most played
baseball,NULL,5678945,Most played
cricket,NOTNULL,125782,Usually played
cricket,NOTNULL,678921,Usually played
$ nawk 'BEGIN{FS=","}!a... (2 Replies)
Hello!
I have one problem with my bash script - I would like to be able to read white space characters from stdin (for example single " ") - can I acomplish that somehow? I need to read only one character at the time, so I use read -s -n 1 var but it doesn't work for whitespaces apparently.
... (3 Replies)
I need to list and delete all files in current older which are olderthan 7 days. But my file names have white spaces. Before deleting I want to list all the files, so that I can verify.find . -type f -mtime +7 | xargs ls -l {}
But the ls command is the working on the files which have white... (16 Replies)
Perl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::ProhibitHardTabs(3pm) User Contributed Perl DocumentationPerl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::ProhibitHardTabs(3pm)NAME
Perl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::ProhibitHardTabs - Use spaces instead of tabs.
AFFILIATION
This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution.
DESCRIPTION
Putting hard tabs in your source code (or POD) is one of the worst things you can do to your co-workers and colleagues, especially if those
tabs are anywhere other than a leading position. Because various applications and devices represent tabs differently, they can cause you
code to look vastly different to other people. Any decent editor can be configured to expand tabs into spaces. Perl::Tidy also does this
for you.
This Policy catches all tabs in your source code, including POD, quotes, and HEREDOCs. The contents of the "__DATA__" section are not
examined.
CONFIGURATION
Hard tabs in a string are always forbidden (use " " instead). But hard tabs in a leading position are allowed when they are used to
indent code statements, "qw()" word lists, and regular expressions with the "/x" modifier. However, if you want to forbid all tabs
everywhere, then add this to your .perlcriticrc file:
[CodeLayout::ProhibitHardTabs]
allow_leading_tabs = 0
NOTES
Beware that Perl::Critic may report the location of the string that contains the tab, not the actual location of the tab, so you may need
to do some hunting. I'll try and fix this in the future.
AUTHOR
Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <jeff@imaginative-software.com>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Imaginative Software Systems. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of this license
can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
perl v5.14.2 2012-06-07 Perl::Critic::Policy::CodeLayout::ProhibitHardTabs(3pm)