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Hi I want to remove a space for column 6. basically column 6 in my file looks like this:

Code:

tig 2
tig 9
tig 39
tig 300

I want the output to look like this:

Code:

tig2
tig9
tig39
tig300

How do I remove that space just for column 6.

thanks

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im sorry...

thanks

not sure what you're sorry about, but that's ok.........

kylle345 is probably sorry because of this

@phil_heath:

This is something a little sed script can do for you. It seems to me that the column you are trying to change is 5, not 6, but maybe i am missing a leading space. Anyways, you can modify the script yourself easily, the five full stops i put in represent 5 random characters followed by a space. If you have to change the column simply add/delete some of the full stops to adjust:

Code:

sed 's/^\(.....\) /\1/' /path/to/sourcefile > /path/to/resultfile

I hope this helps.

bakunin