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Old 03-03-2009
remove trailing and leading spaces using tr command

Dear All,

can you please advice how do i remove trailing and leading spaces from a pipe-delimited file using "tr" command

the below cmd, i tried removed all spaces
tr -d ' '<s1.txt>s2.txt1

Many thx
Suresh
# 2  
Old 03-03-2009
could you post some sample data from your pipe-delimited file?
# 3  
Old 03-03-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by sureshg_sampat
Dear All,

can you please advice how do i remove trailing and leading spaces from a pipe-delimited file using "tr" command

the below cmd, i tried removed all spaces
tr -d ' '<s1.txt>s2.txt1

Many thx
Suresh
Something like this?

Code:
 sed 's/ | /|/g' s1.txt > s2.txt1

Regards
# 4  
Old 03-03-2009
Hi

Source file looks like this
cat s1.txt
3301|2009-02-01 00:00:00 |K|GGG|TR|2009-02-12 16:30:58 |ad |12

Desired Output
3301|2009-02-01 00:00:00||K|GGG|TR|2009-02-12 16:30:58||ad|12

Would appreciate if we have a command in "tr"

Regards,
Suresh
# 5  
Old 03-04-2009
echo "3301|2009-02-01 00:00:00 |K|GGG|TR|2009-02-12 16:30:58 |ad |12" |tr ' ' '|'
3301|2009-02-01|00:00:00||K|GGG|TR|2009-02-12|16:30:58||ad||12
# 6  
Old 03-04-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by steven_TTG
echo "3301|2009-02-01 00:00:00 |K|GGG|TR|2009-02-12 16:30:58 |ad |12" |tr ' ' '|'
3301|2009-02-01|00:00:00||K|GGG|TR|2009-02-12|16:30:58||ad||12
That does not match the desired output - you have put a | between date and time.
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