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perl -i~ -pe 's/,+/,/g' your_filename_goes_here

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Re^2: Find & Replace
by mantra2006 (Hermit) on Aug 10, 2006 at 15:05 UTC
    Hello

    This command worked..is there any way to specify the
    line numbers so that only first line and last line of the
    file will be replaced
    Thanks & Regards

    Sridhar
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      perl -i -pe '(1==$. or eof) && s/,,+/,/' file_name

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