On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 01:02:52PM +0000, Lars Hecking mentioned:
> > cat file | sed -e 's/| */|/' > file1
> > cat file1 | sed -e 's/ *|/|/' > file
> Enter our contender for this week's Useless Use of cat Award!
Well, trying to be modular & see where it breaks ;)
> > That regexp works fine in Vim. Not in sed. Mutter.
> Use the g(lobal) flag: sed 's/| */|/g'
Mutter. I have that set in Vim by default.
Kate
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