Simple SED commands are: sed s/ */ /g This will replace any number of spaces with a single space. sed s/ $// This will replace any single space at the end of the line with nothing. sed s/ /,/g This will replace any single space with a single comma.

How do you replace a space in a new line in Unix?

A few choices:

1. The classic, use tr : tr ‘ ‘ ‘n’ < example.
2. Use cut cut -d ‘ ‘ –output-delimiter=$’n’ -f 1- example.
3. Use sed sed ‘s/ /n/g’ example.
4. Use perl perl -pe ‘s/ /n/g’ example.
5. Use the shell foo=$(cat example); echo -e ${foo// /\n}

How do I change the space in Linux?

This is how to replace tab by space or replace spaces by tab in linux.

1. replace space by tab. in bash you can run. sed -e ‘s/ /t/g’ test.py > test.new.py. in vim you can do this: # first in . …
2. replace tab to spaces. set option expandtab (abbreviated to et ) :set et|retab.

31 июл. 2016 г.