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Old 03-08-2011
removing blank spaces in a script

Hi I am writing a shell to run sqlplus scripts. i found a issue in my scripts that oracle will not spool a file if there is blank spaces in the word
like
/backup dir/scriptrelease/1_DDL
or
/backupdir/script release/2_DDL
can we write some thing in the shell to make "/backup dir" to /backup_dir
or "/script release/" to "/scriptrelease/"
please help
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Old 03-08-2011
Is the folder is actually named "/backup dir/" though? You have to match the name, can't just call it by whatever you please.

Removing any spaces that "look like" they shouldn't be there would probably be disastrous anyway. Look for a pattern in this. Perhaps there's a few particular directories that're always wrong.
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