Sed replace white and leave one character. 1

[jouell]

Hi.

How would I use sed to replace all white space in a file with a semicolon?


cat file | sed -e 's/ /:/g'


is ok but is leaves a bunch of ":".
I need to have just one.
I am using GNU sed version 4.1.2

Thanks!
-jouell

 

[TonyGroves]

[tt]sed -e 's/ \+/:/g' < file[/tt]

 

[jouell]

THANK YOU TonyGroves!

I knew I was close, but you nailed it thanks!