John P. Looney writes:
>> 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
Enter our contender for this week's Useless Use of cat Award!
> That regexp works fine in Vim. Not in sed. Mutter.
Use the g(lobal) flag: sed 's/| */|/g'
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