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From: "Andrew Specht" <andrew@iaccess.com.au>
To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: sed???
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:27:02 +1000
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woohooo

it worked :)

thanks for that

Andrew Specht                                             |  System
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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Andrew Specht <andrew@iaccess.com.au>; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Monday, May 11, 1998 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: sed???


>On Mon, 11 May 1998 at 16:50:55 +1000, Andrew Specht wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out how to substitute multiple spaces from a text
file
>> with a single space using sed.
>>
>> this didn't work:
>>
>> sed /[" "]+//s//[" "]/ test
>
>No, it wouldn't.
>
>sed 's:   *: :g' test
>
>Those are three spaces before the *; the first two because that's the
>minimum you want to consider changing, and the third one because
>there's no + operator in sed.
>
>Greg
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