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# 8  
Old 12-05-2007
sorry i didnt realise i didnt put this but there are actually 5 spaces behind each = and six spaces after

cheers
# 9  
Old 12-05-2007
VERy strange.. worked just fine under Solaris' stock sed....
Are these 'white spaces' 'space' or TAB (or something else)?
# 10  
Old 12-05-2007
they are 'spaces' and i am using Red Hat 3.4.6-3

cheers Smilie
# 11  
Old 12-05-2007
Are you sure you're doing this?:
Code:
sed '1,$s/ *= */=/g' oldfile > newfile

# 12  
Old 12-05-2007
yep definately i have just tried it again triple checking everything and it still of changes the top line

Cheers Smilie
# 13  
Old 12-05-2007
Hi the problem was that one of the commands i used earlier seems to have converted it from tab to spaces and now that i reverted to the original it has gone back to tabs hence removing spaces was not working. in the end i used:
in vi
:%s/\t//g

thanks for the speed of your replys it was greatly appreciated

cheers Smilie
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