topic Re: insert spaces in a word in Operating System - Linux

insert spaces in a word

manasa_1 — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:56:48 GMT

Hello,
This is the string what i have which is continous.
/dev/dsk/c3t2d0s3/dev/rdsk/c3t2d0s3

now which command i need to use to get the string as below.

/dev/dsk/c3t2d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c3t2d0s3

Re: insert spaces in a word

Yogeeraj_1 — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:01:58 GMT

hi,

try:

:1,$s/\/dev/ \/dev/g

kind regards
yogeeraj

Re: insert spaces in a word

Yogeeraj_1 — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:06:35 GMT

hi again,

of course, i was assuming that you are using the vi editor.

You can also do the same from the command line.

cat oldfile | sed s/\/dev/ \/dev/g> newfile

hope this helps too!

kind regards
yogeeraj

Re: insert spaces in a word

Hein van den Heuvel — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:05:09 GMT

Similar answer as the other question you asked:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1210912

Where did that string come from, where is it going?
What is the 'real' problem you are trying to solve.

Rather then fixing after the fact exploiting
assumed characteritics which may or might not change, why not solve the core problem and make sure clean data is delivered in the first place?!

For example, witness the following (contrived) example:

$ perl -e 'print join q( ),@ARGV' /dev/*/c0t0d0
$ perl -le 'print @ARGV' /dev/*/c0t0d0
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0
$ perl -le 'print join q( ),@ARGV' /dev/*/c0t0d0
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0

Hope this helps,
Hein.