Shell Programming and Scripting

awk '{$1=$1}{print}' file>file1

Input :-
;05/12/1990                      ;31/03/2014                         ;
Output:-
;05/12/1990 ;31/03/2014 ;

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tr -d ' ' < file > file1

sed 's/ //g' file > file1

awk '{gsub(/ /, x)}1' file > file1

awk '$1=$1' OFS= file

awk '{$1=$1}1' OFS= file

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) s1	Demonstrate conversion of UTF-8 to ASCII, iconv.

# Utility functions: print-as-echo, print-line-with-visual-space, debug.
# export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
LC_ALL=C ; LANG=C ; export LC_ALL LANG
pe() { for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }
db() { ( printf " db, ";for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done;printf "\n" ) >&2 ; }
db() { : ; }
C=$HOME/bin/context && [ -f $C ] && $C iconv

FILE=${1-data1}

pl " Input data file $FILE:"
cat $FILE

pl " Results:"
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL="" iconv -c -f utf8 -t ascii//TRANSLIT $FILE |
tee data2
pe
file $FILE data2

exit 0

$ ./s1

Environment: LC_ALL = C, LANG = C
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 2.6.26-2-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian 5.0.8 (lenny, workstation) 
bash GNU bash 3.2.39
iconv (GNU libc) 2.7

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 Input data file data1:
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 Results:
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data1: UTF-8 Unicode text
data2: ASCII text