how to remove or replace whitespace from file in VI editor?

[importatnt]

Hi,

how to remove or replace whitespace from file in VI editor?

Thanks,

[Tim Nelson]

:%s/\ //g

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

I assume you want to remove *trailing* whitespace (spaces and/or tabs) from the end of lines:

%s/[\s\t]*$//

...where '\s' is a space-character and for '\t' type a tab character.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Bill Hassell]

White space is not just spaces, it also includes tabs (and in some programs like tr and awk, the whitespace concept includes the end of line character LF). Now the question is: do you want to delete all space and tab characters? If so, just use tr like this:

tr -d '[:blank:]' myfile

Redirect the output into a new file if you need to save the results. To get rid of spaces, tabs and LF characters, use:

tr -d '[:space:]' myfile

For other space manipulation, you can reduce all strings of more than one space to a single space with:

tr -s '[:space:]' myfile

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,
Open your file in vi
at vi command prompt :
type

:1,$s///gp

Suraj