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Old 09-19-2010
Tools Deleting characters with sed,perl,awk
Input:
Code:
:: gstreamer
:: xine-lib
:: xine-lib-extras

Output should be:
Code:
gstreamer xine-lib xine-lib-extras

How can it be done with sed or perl?
# 2  
Old 09-19-2010
Code:
$ ruby -ane 'print "#{$F[1]} "' file

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Old 09-19-2010
Perl:
Code:
perl -ple '$\=" ";s/[: ]//g' file

tr :P
Code:
cat file | tr -d ": " | tr "\n" " "

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Old 09-19-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by bartus11
Perl:
Code:
perl -ple '$\=" ";s/[: ]//g' file

tr :P
Code:
cat file | tr -d ": " | tr "\n" " "

What is $\=" " ?
And for tr,input may be:
Code:
:: gstreamer
::      xine-lib
::   xine-lib-extras

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Old 09-19-2010
$\ is output record separator (it is like ORS in awk).
# 6  
Old 09-19-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by bartus11
$\ is output record separator (it is like ORS in awk).
Ok,but there may be 4,5,infinite space characters.
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Old 09-19-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by cola
Ok, but there may be 4,5,infinite space characters.
Infinite ?? Really ? That's a first.

Did you even try out bartus11's Perl one-liner before claiming it won't work ?

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