Re: remove specific spaces within some patternme

Can you explain better how is your expected data and the desired pattern that you want to match?

perl -pi'*.bak' -e 's/Common Public License v/CommonPublicLicensev/' m
+yfile
perl -pi'*.bak' -e 's/\s-\s/-/' myfile
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Update. Or even better:

perl -pi.bak -e 's/Common Public License v/CommonPublicLicensev/' -e 's/\s-\s/-/' myfile

And second update. It seems that the desired patterns can appear several times in the same line, so you need to add a final g here: 's/Common Public License v/CommonPublicLicensev/g' and here 's/\s-\s/-/g'

And that's all

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Re^2: remove specific spaces within some patternme by gdanenb (Acolyte) on Oct 24, 2011 at 12:03 UTC
The string I posted was just an example It's taken from Solaris Prototype file used for packaging. So,it much more than that `f none jboss/docs/licenses/BSD style license - bsd.txt=$CELL/docs/lice +nses/BSD style license - bsd.txt 0644 $CELL_USER $CELL_GROUP f none jboss/docs/licenses/BSD style - license.html=$CELL/docs/license +s/BSD style - license.html 0644 $CELL_USER $CELL_G ROUP f none jboss/docs/licenses/Common Development And Distribution License + (CDDL) Version 1.0 - cddl.html=$CELL/docs/licenses/Common Developmen +t And Distribution License (CDDL) Version 1.0 - cddl.html 0644 $CELL_ +USER $CELL_GROUP` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: remove specific spaces within some patternme by pvaldes (Chaplain) on Oct 24, 2011 at 13:40 UTC
It seems that you don't have here a decently constant pattern. Alternativelly you could also replace all spaces by "nothing" and then restore two or three exceptions, like fnonejboss, etc. It depends a lot on your specific input data file	[reply]
Re^3: remove specific spaces within some patternme by Anonymous Monk on Oct 24, 2011 at 19:30 UTC
`perl -pe 's: (?!.\bjboss/)(?=. 0644 )::g'` [download]	[reply] [d/l]