What you are trying to accomplish is not clear to me.
If you're trying to change all occurrences of two or more adjacent spaces to a single space, try:
Code:
sed 's/ *//g'
If that isn't what you're trying to do, show us the desired output (using CODE tags) so we can see the difference between your input and what you're trying to get out of it.
This could be done with sed by splitting the lines with extra spaces into three lines, deleting the spaces in the 2nd line of each split set, and rejoining the split lines into single lines again. I find awk to be easier to use for operations like this:
If you want to see how this script splits lines, removes spaces from the middle part, and rejoins lines; remove the octothorp (#) characters in front of the debugging printf() calls. (Once you see how it works, you can remove those lines entirely.)
If you want to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, /usr/xpg6/bin/awk, or nawk.
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The following command works echo "some text with spaces" | sh -c 'sed -e 's/t//g''But this doesn't and should echo "some text with spaces" | sh -c 'sed -e 's/ //g''Any ideas? (3 Replies)
Hi, suppose I have the following data:
albert music=top40 age=20
bob music=punk rock age=25
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Hi all,
i am getting count from oracle 11g by spooling it to a file.
Now there are some newline characters and blank spaces i need to remove these.
pl provide me a awk/sed solution.
the spooled file is attached.
i tried this.. but not getting req o/p (6 Replies)
if the answer is obvious, sorry, I'm new here.
anyway, I'm using tr to encrypt with rot-13:
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Hello and thx for reading this
I'm using sed to remove only the leading spaces in a file
bash-280R# cat foofile
some text
some text
some text
some text
some text
bash-280R#
bash-280R# sed 's/^ *//' foofile > foofile.use
bash-280R# cat foofile.use
some text
some text
some text... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I need a help in deleting extra spaces in a text.
I have a huge file, a part of it is :-
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Hello,
I have the following to remove spaces from beginning and end of a string.
infile=`echo "$infilename" | sed 's/^ *//;s/ *$//`
How do I modify the above code to remove spaces from beginning, end and in the middle of the string also.
ex:
... (4 Replies)
06-03-2014
