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Commands tagged spaces

Terminal - Commands tagged spaces - 7 results

sed -i "s/\s*/ /g;s/\s*$//" input_file

2011-12-12 10:58:33

User: gitterrost4

Functions: sed

Tags: sed replace multiple spaces textfile tabs

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Get rid of multiple spaces/tabs in a text file

A much shorter version of this command.

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sed -i "s/$\x09\{1,\}$\|$ \{1,\}$/ /g;s/$\x09\{1,\}$$\|$ \{1,\}$$//g" brisati.txt

2011-12-12 10:24:03

User: knoppix5

Functions: sed

Tags: sed replace multiple spaces textfile tabs

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Get rid of multiple spaces/tabs in a text file

This command does the following:

- converts any sequence of multiple spaces/tabs to one space only

- completely removes any space(s)/tab(s) at the end of each line

(If spaces and tabs are mixed in a sequence i.e. [tab][tab][space][tab], you have to execute this command twice!)

find . -type f -name \*.php | while IFS="" read i; do expand -t4 "$i" > "$i-"; mv "$i-" "$i"; done

2011-04-08 12:53:14

User: flatcap

Functions: expand find mv read

Tags: find read expand spaces unexpand tabs whitespace

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Replace spaces with tabs & format file source recursively within a directory

Recursively find php files and replace tab characters with spaces.

Options:

"\*.php" -- replace this with the files you wish to find

"expand" -- replace tabs with spaces (use "unexpand" to replace spaces with tabs)

"-t4" -- tabs represent 4 spaces

Note: The IFS="" in the middle is to prevent 'read' from eating leading/trailing whitespace in filenames.

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find $DIR -name *.php -exec vim -u NONE -c 'set ft=php' -c 'set shiftwidth=4' -c 'set tabstop=4' -c 'set noexpandtab!' -c 'set noet' -c 'retab!' -c 'bufdo! "execute normal gg=G"' -c wq {} \;

2011-04-08 11:42:45

User: ruslan

Functions: find vim

Tags: vim source spaces tab format

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Replace spaces with tabs & format file source recursuvely within a directory

The sample command searches for PHP files replacing tabs with spaces.

-u NONE # don't use vimrc

Instead of

retab!

one may pass

retab! 4

for instance.

Look at this http://susepaste.org/69028693 also

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:%s/\s\+$//

2011-02-27 19:44:39

User: EBAH

Tags: vi spaces trim trailing

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Remove trailing space in vi

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rsync [options] -- * target

2010-11-18 23:09:17

User: l0b0

Functions: rsync

Tags: space rsync spaces filenames

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Rsync files with spaces

Using the double dash before the source and target makes the command work fine with weird filenames.

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ls -Q * | xargs -p rm

2010-01-27 02:46:49

User: temp_reg

Functions: ls xargs

Tags: delete quotes spaces

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delete multiple files with spaces in filenames (with confirmation)

ls -Q will show the filenames in quotes. xargs -p rm will print all the filenames piped from ls -Q and ask for confirmation before deleting the files.

without the -Q switch, if we have spaces in names, then the files won't be deleted.