-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andras Lorincz wrote: > I want to replaces all multiple spaces with one space. My first > attempt was this: > > sed -e 's/\ */\ /g' > > This replaced all multiple spaces with one but as a side effect, sed > inserted a space between all characters.
You told sed "replace 0 or more whitespace characters with 1 whitespace character. > > sed -e 's/[\ ]\ */\ /g' > > and this works. The fact is that I don't understand why the first one > doesn't work. Can someone explain me that? This time you told sed "replace 1 or more whitespace characters with 1 whitespace character. - -- /phil -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key: http://www.dyermaker.org/gpgkey iD8DBQFCgkw/Gbd/rBLcaFwRAtUqAKCu8C+iNH53011Lq3NGX680H/P4xwCdGUBZ e78WXTGi3RGpm3uoGFBv04I= =ZkNQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
