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# 1  
Old 04-20-2012
How to squeeze multiple pipe character '|' into single '|' using sed?
Hi,

I am trying to convert multiple Unix pipe symbol or bar into single |. I have tried with the following sed statements, but, no success Smilie. I need it using sed only
Code:
echo "sed 's/\|\+/\|/g'
sed 's/[\|]*/\|/'
sed 's/\|*/|/'
sed -r 's/\|+/\|/'


However, the below awk code is working fine.
Code:
awk '{gsub(/\|+/,"|")}1'

# 2  
Old 04-20-2012
Code:
echo '1|23||45|||6|' | sed 's/||*/|/g'

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royalibrahim
# 3  
Old 04-20-2012
The tr utility can do it with its -s (squeeze) option.

Code:
$ echo 'a||||b' | tr -s '|'
a|b

$

# 4  
Old 04-23-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Code:
echo '1|23||45|||6|' | sed 's/||*/|/g'

Hi vgersh99, thank you for the code. Can't I use \+ to mean one or more of this type, instead of this archaic wild-card character '*'?
# 5  
Old 04-23-2012
@royalibrahim. \+ is a GNU extension to sed. You can use it but your command will only work with GNU sed..
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