Re^2: remove specific spaces within some patternme

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
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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]