topic Re: White Space in Operating System - HP-UX

White Space

Steve Massey_1 — Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:11:09 GMT

Hi

What is the best way to remove white space from a file name

Steve

Re: White Space

CHRIS_ANORUO — Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:22:15 GMT

Move the file. (mv tod*ay newname)

Re: White Space

Steve Massey_1 — Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:23:48 GMT

Thanks Chris

But I should have given more detail

I am writing a script that takes a filename - with non alpha numeric chars - and I want to remove them

Steve

Re: White Space

Patrick Wessel — Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:25:00 GMT

mv "name with black" namewithoutblack

Re: White Space

Brian M. Fisher — Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:35:07 GMT

The tr (translate characters) command may give you the options you are after. It can be used to remove "white space".

man tr

Brian
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Re: White Space

Patrick Wessel — Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:38:32 GMT

well, I guess I posted my first answer to fast.

this line should do the trick:

string_without_space=`echo $string_with_blank | sed -e 's/ //g'`

Re: White Space

Alan Riggs — Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:00:59 GMT

To generalize the sed command for any particular set of non-standard characters use:

good_name=`echo bad_name|sed 's/[]//g'
mv $bad_name $good_name

Re: White Space

Duane Gorder — Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:24:18 GMT

I like Alan Riggs' answer, but remember that some of the special characters that you might want to list will have to be "escaped" with th \ character.