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Squashing spaces
If we want to remove extra spaces in a text like this:
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This is some interesting text. |
You could be tempted to use sed, but there is a simpler way using tr
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tr -s ' ' |
And we end up with:
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This is some interesting text. |
With tr you can also delete characters instead of compressing them. Let’s say we wanted to get rid of the vowels.
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tr -d 'aeiou' |
We get:
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Ths s sm ntrstng txt. |