[ILUG] sed people ?

[Kenn Humborg]

>  This is annoying me. I have a file with '|' delimiters. I want to get rid
> of any spaces after them. Say it looks like
> 
> foo |   bar | bing | something else | baz
> 
>  I want it to look like:
> 
> foo|bar|bing|something else|baz
> 
>  Now, I tryed to run:
> 
> cat file |  sed -e 's/| */|/' > file1
> cat file1 |  sed -e 's/ *|/|/' > file
> 
>  That regexp works fine in Vim. Not in sed. Mutter.

You forgot the g at the end of the command:

$ cat file |  sed -e 's/| */|/g' > file1
$ cat file1 |  sed -e 's/ *|/|/g' > file

This works for me...

Later,
Kenn