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Old 12-12-2010
Question Modify a record in a unix file
I have few records in a file and each file consists of a field for state and country of length 50 characters. Currently it being represented as
Austin, Texas(remaining segments upto length 50 are blank)
I need to modify this to
Austin,Texas(remaining segments upto length 50 are blank)

The idea is to remove the space between , and Country name at the same time maintaining the record length as 50. And this needs to be done for all the records in the file. There are no other fields with a , in the record.
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Old 12-12-2010
You can try
Code:
IFS='' sed 's/, /,/' infile >outfile

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Old 12-12-2010
Code:
sed 's/, \([^,]\{49\}\)/,\1 /' infile

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Old 12-13-2010
sed 's/,\( \)\([a-zA-Z]*\)/,\2\1/g' infile
 
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