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Hey! I tried this out and it works, so super nice... thanks!
For me to get it to work in lots of cases though, I find I have to do the following:
Convert a single space or multiple spaces to a tab or comma (if multiple spaces is the delimiter)
I also found that I had to skip lines at the start of my input, so I just did tail -n +2, but maybe that's something to consider as an option too...
I have a script that I use to convert multiple spaces to a single delimiter, but thought it might be good to support this as an option right in this tool. Here's what I use, for what it's worth
compress_spaces.sh
function show_help()
{
IT=$(CAT <<EOF
usage: {REPLACE_WITH}
NOTE: If you pass in TAB, then multiple spaces are replaced with a TAB character
no args -> multiple spaces replaced with a single space
TAB -> multiple spaces replaced with a single tab character
TEST -> multiple spaces replaced with the phrase "TEST"
)
echo "$IT"
exit
}
if [ "$1" == "help" ]
then
show_help
fi
# Show help if we're not getting data from stdin
if [ -t 0 ]; then
show_help
fi
REPLACE_WITH=${1:-' '}
if [ "$REPLACE_WITH" == "tab" ]
then
REPLACE_WITH=$'\t'
fi
if [ "$REPLACE_WITH" == "TAB" ]
then
REPLACE_WITH=$'\t'
fi
sed "s/ \{1,\}/$REPLACE_WITH/gp"
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Hey! I tried this out and it works, so super nice... thanks!
For me to get it to work in lots of cases though, I find I have to do the following:
I also found that I had to skip lines at the start of my input, so I just did
tail -n +2
, but maybe that's something to consider as an option too...I have a script that I use to convert multiple spaces to a single delimiter, but thought it might be good to support this as an option right in this tool. Here's what I use, for what it's worth
compress_spaces.sh
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: