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Old 06-11-2009
SED Issue please advise!!!
Hi folks,

Please share your ideas I want to conventor all the blank space's in my file to a single blank,

Im using this currently sed 's/ / /' foo for two blank space but the blanks in the file varies like for example 2 blanks, 3 blanks, 4 blanks etc etc....


please help what should I use here to convert into single blank in a file..


Quick response will be appreciated!!!

Haque
# 2  
Old 06-11-2009
Assuming blank space also includes tabs then the following should work for you
Code:
sed 's/[[:blank:]][[:blank:]]*/ /g' file

# 3  
Old 06-11-2009
With awk:

Code:
awk '{$1=$1}1' file

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