Quick SED Question

[brandteppler]

I need to replace blank spaces 1 or greater with a |
ie:

Have this
-rw------- 1 root root 192 Sep 28 04:45 sh78058
need this:
-rw-------|1|root|root|192|Sep|28|04:45|sh78058

Thanks in advance!!

Brandt

 

[Annihilannic]

This should do it:

sed 's/  */|/g'

Annihilannic.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Or this ( insignificantly faster ) :

tr -s ' ' '|'

Tested with GNU [tt]tr[/tt].

But while you asked thi in the [tt]awk[/tt] forum :

awk -vOFS='|' '$1=$1'

Tested with [tt]gawk[/tt] and [tt]mawk[/tt].

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[brandteppler]

Thanks to all who responded, Works as expected!!