How to Remove Spaces in a File - Unix

hi

i have 3 field in the file

ex :name address city

but the values are like(' Guest ',' mumbai ',' mumbai ')

now i want to remove those spaces contains in each field

Try this:

cat file | sed "s/ *//g" > new_file

(there is a space before * and no space between //)

This will remove all spaces from the file.

- MS

hi

its not working

There is not a single command that will do a complex search and replace. But you can look up how to grep, sed, and awk if must stick with raw unix. You can appropos them to find out how to use them.