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# 1  
Old 01-18-2013
Change name format
I am trying to use either awk or sed to make names like
Code:
J. A. Smith

and
Code:
J.A. Martin Smith

become
Code:
JA Smith

and
Code:
JA Martin Smith

The code should concatenate abbreviated letters that have a dot after them.

I have only been able to do this:
Code:
echo $name | sed 's/\.\ //g'

But that concatenates the whole name:
Code:
JASmith

# 2  
Old 01-18-2013
Code:
echo 'J.A. Martin Smith' | sed 's/[.]//g'

# 3  
Old 01-18-2013
try also:
Code:
echo $name | sed 's/\([^ ]*\)[.] */.\1. /g; s/[.] *[.]//g; s/[.]\(.*\)[.]/\1/g'

# 4  
Old 01-18-2013
expanding vgersh99's code to also remove spaces in between:
Code:
$ echo 'J. A. Martin Smith' | sed 's/ *\([[:alpha:]]\)[.]/\1/g'

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