Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:27:02 +1000 From: "Andrew Specht" <andrew@iaccess.com.au> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sed??? Message-ID: <017401bd7d34$4dcb9180$e34a05cb@alpine.iaccess>
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woohooo it worked :) thanks for that Andrew Specht | System Administrator E-mail: andrew@iaccess.com.au | Internet Access Australia Internet: http://www.iaccess.com.au | Melbourne, Australia -----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 >-- >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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