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Old 07-29-2008
How to Delete space from the file

Hi,

I want to delete the space from the file.

For eg :
deep | raj | sis

i want the output as

deep|raj|sis

Please Help me

Thanks,
Deep
# 2  
Old 07-29-2008
Code:
echo 'deep | raj | sis' | sed 's/[ ]//g'

# 3  
Old 07-29-2008
.. or just escape the space
Code:
echo 'deep | raj | sis' | sed 's/\ //g'

.. or use tr to remove space
Code:
echo 'deep | raj | sis' | tr -d ' '

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