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Old 05-08-2015
Remove double char occurences
I have a file with random characters where every time a char occurs twice, one occurrence must be removed.

Eg.

Code:
asjkdhaSSd

Must become:

Code:
asjkdhaSd

Anybody has a SED script in mind to do it?
Last edited by Don Cragun; 05-08-2015 at 10:44 PM.. Reason: Change Bold tags to CODE tags.
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Old 05-08-2015
With a sed that conforms to the standards, it is pretty simple:
Code:
sed 's/\(.\)\1/\1/g' file

With GNU sed:
Code:
sed --posix 's/\(.\)\1/\1/g' file

might work.
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