Re: removing blanks from a file

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
Bil Kleb wrote:
Luka Djigas wrote:

I have a file, which is the output of one of my programs. It's a
script file, and therefore it's not supposed to have blanks in it.

I don't completely understand the "script file" statement
so this may be way off the mark, but I'd just use a dynamic
language or a *nix filter like awk to remove the spaces
from the file, e.g.,

The usual set of unix utilities includes a program called tr that
can do this. There is a set of such utilities that will run as
command line utilities under 32 bit windows. I should have the URL,
but I don't have it right now.

see http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/


tr -d ' ' < infile > outfile

(The command line quoting conventions are different under windows.)

This is most likely much faster than a Fortran program, if you have
large files.

-- glen

-- elliot

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