[H-GEN] regular expressions

[Martin Pool]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 11:43:05AM +0800, Tom Atkinson wrote:
> [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and ]
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> 
> The following sed script will replace multiple instances of white space
> with one 'a', for example:
> 
> sed 's/ */a/'

Alternatively:

  tr -s ' ' '|'

-s means `squish together multiple matches'.

-- 
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