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malladisk

malladisk

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Jun 14, 2001
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Hi, I'm trying to concatenate strings using the 'tr' command.
$ echo "John Doe" | tr ' ' ''

What I want to do is delete the space between John and Doe.

What am I doing wrong?
Thx,
-S
 
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echo "John Doe" | tr -d ' '

vlad
+----------------------------+
| #include<disclaimer.h> |
+----------------------------+
 
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