On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 12:05:06PM +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:36:10AM EST, Alex Samad wrote:
> > sed -e 's/ +"/"/' oldfile > newfile 
> 
> It seems that changing the + to an * did the trick. Thanks.
strange 

the above should work for 

test   " => test"

and shouldn't do anything for 

test" => test"

I tried some tests your right, but when I escaped out the + so it looks like 

sed -e '/s/ \+"/"/' 

will have to investigate later 


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