> > > On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 20:02:33 -0000 "Kenn Humborg" <kenn at bluetree.ie>
> > > wrote:
> > > | > sed 's/ *| */|/g' file | cat > file
> > >
>> Tell me this actually, in the past I've had to use tab identifiers
> in grep commands, as in 'grep -i ^#[ /t]+something form_a_file' to mean
> any comment followed by any amount of spaces or tabs followed by
> something. Should you then use a tab identifier within a sed command of
> this nature, rather than replacing all the spaces with nothing ??
> Course rather than replacing the ' *| *' string with part of itself,
> you could put together a convoluted series of cuts and greps and whatnot
> and stick them into a sed staement that just removes the unwanted spaces
> rather than having to re-enter the pipe . . . but that's just pedantic :-)
>> --steve
> nested commands are good
>>
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