Answer by Bünyamin C. for How to match whitespace in sed?
I don't know if it can help but I just did that :MacBook-Pro-van-User:training user$ cat sed.txtMy name is BobMacBook-Pro-van-User:training user$sed s/"My name is Bob"/"My Lastname is Montoya"/g...
View ArticleAnswer by user1932365 for How to match whitespace in sed?
None of the above worked for me. Yet I found the simplest answer ever by using awkuser@~[]$ cat /tmp/file/nospace/in/here/this/one space/well/seems we have spacesuser@~[]$ cat /tmp/file |awk...
View ArticleAnswer by some ideas for How to match whitespace in sed?
This works on MacOS 10.8:sed -E "s/[[:space:]]+/ /g"
View ArticleAnswer by Marnix A. van Ammers for How to match whitespace in sed?
Some older versions of sed may not recognize \s as a white space matching token. In that case you can match a sequence of one or more spaces and tabs with '[XZ][XZ]*' where X is a space and Z is a tab.
View ArticleAnswer by mrucci for How to match whitespace in sed?
The character class \s will match the whitespace characters <tab> and <space>.For example:$ sed -e "s/\s\{3,\}/ /g" inputFilewill substitute every sequence of at least 3 whitespaces with...
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How can I match whitespace in sed? In my data I want to match all of 3+ subsequent whitespace characters (tab space) and replace them by 2 spaces. How can this be done?
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