Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 17:25:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Andrew Specht <andrew@iaccess.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sed??? Message-ID: <19980511172540.B20153@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <036c01bd7ca9$257ce020$e34a05cb@alpine.iaccess>; from Andrew Specht on Mon, May 11, 1998 at 04:50:55PM %2B1000 References: <036c01bd7ca9$257ce020$e34a05cb@alpine.iaccess>
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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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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