sed and spaces

[Fred Martin_1]

I need to remove all occurances of side-by-side spaces in a text file...for example I want this:

WORDWORD

to become this:

WORDWORD

man pages on sed say that this will do it:

sed 'y///'

But I can't get that to work.

sed 's///g'

The above won't work because it only removes non-overlapping occurances.

Help,
Fred

[Sundar_7 · Accepted solution]

Try this

sed 's/ */ /g'

[Fred Martin_1]

That's it. To be clear (because this forum format seems to remove spaces too) here it is again:

sed 's/*//g'

Many thanks,
Fred