On 1/27/07, Steve Kowalik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just to throw my 2 cents in, tr(1) can do this. tr -s ' ' < oldfile > newfile
This would nuke *all* of the spaces in the document. Luke clarifed in a follow-up post that it was only whitespace butting up against quotes that needed to be removed. Unfortunately tr doesn't deal with context whereas sed (and perl/python) can. -- Regards, Martin Martin Visser -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
