> Am Dienstag, 21. August 2007 schrieb Leen de Braal:
>> First is to replace the first (only the first) space in the line with a
>> <TAB>.
>> After that I want to delete a given number of characters that always
>> begin
>> with the same sequence, but may have different contents.
>
> sed 's/^ /\t/;s/beginning.\{n\}//'
>
> works for me, where "beginning" ist the beginning sequence and n is the
> given
> number of characters minus the length of "beginning".
>Tried it, works! Thanks. >> I used sed 's/^ /\t/' txtfile, but I do not get a tab. > > That works for me. I was wrong, is a tab here too. I overlooked it because next tabstop was exactly 1 space away. > >> Besides, this might >> do more then just the first space, I guess. > > No, 's/ /\t/g' would do so. Ok, thats good. > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- L. de Braal BraHa Systems NL - Terneuzen T +31 115 649333 F +31 115 649444 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
