On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 06:30:24PM -0500, Steve Clark wrote:
> why not use the squeeze option of tr.
>
> tr -s " "
I wasn't aware of that one, it's even simpler and more elegant.
Thanks!
For this particular case, tr(1) won't do for the same reason
the simple sed(1) expression I gave won't do: it should only
be applied to the data, not the extra 4 lines of meta-data.
Cheers,
Peter
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