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Compress Whitespace With tr Shell Command

12/11/09

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Compress Whitespace With tr Shell Command

To replace all whitespace with single spaces pipe the text through:

tr -s [[:space:]] " "

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Comment from: ultrasawblade [Visitor]
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Yes!!! Exactly what I needed to parse some of ls's output. Thank you VERY much.
01/18/10 @ 13:34

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