Questions tagged [whitespace]

Question 1

Is there any hope of using $(<D) here? Any hope of avoiding the mystery dots? $ cat Makefile D=$(HOME)/Downloads test: $D/DreamHost\ Web\ Panel\ _\ Mail\ _\ Message\ Filters.html : mv "$&...

Question 2

The following question likely does not relate specifically to Vim. I use a Vim example, as this is where I encounter the issue. Working on Ubuntu, I often open multiple files in Vim using tab pages: $ ...

Question 3

This question is similar to this one but it differs from it: Consider this array with string elements which may contain spaces: a@W:$ arr=("eins" "zwei" "eins plus zwei" &...

Question 4

I have the following simple shell command: for x in $(echo one two three); do echo $x; done When executed, it simply prints one two three on one line, i. e. the result of the command substitution is ...

Question 5

In Ed I can test for whitespace with this regex: g/ *$/p. I don't suppose there is a way of showing whitespace, perhaps by passing the contents of the buffer to another shell command?

Question 6

$ ls cn* cn blah blah.txt $ ls cn\ * ls: cannot access 'cn *': No such file or directory $ ls cn*|hexdump -C 00000000 63 6e e2 80 85 62 6c 61 68 c2 a0 62 6c 61 68 2e |cn...blah..blah.| 00000010 74 ...

Question 7

I wanted: #!/bin/bash cmd --options \ option=value,\ option=value,\ option=value,\ option=value But running with bash -x I got: cmd --options option=value, option=value, option=value, ...

Question 8

I'm confronted with an escape challenge: The process: Step 1 - the file retrieval: Within bash, find command will be invoked. Find commands output is 1 single file with a path like this: ./vacation/...

Question 9

I use expand to expand tabs to spaces. For utf8 files expand doesn't work correctly. E.g. in ć\ta tab is expanded to 6 spaces while in a\ta to 7 spaces. How do I make it work for utf8 files?

Question 10

I have written a script that replaces a string, but I need to add the 10 whitespace characters back. I can add it back by pressing space 10 times, and that works, but this looks hideous in my script. ...

Question 11

How can I check if a string has any whitespace characters in it? I do not have to worry about things outside of ASCII for example unicode zero width characters etc. You can assume that the string is ...

Question 12

In the nano text editor, I can pipe the selection into a command, and I quite often need to center text, so I came up with the following code center() { str=$1 # Strip leading and trailing ...

Question 13

I'm unable to remove space from filenames as below, Please advise if any solution is there on this issue. thank you /home/files: Dec 14 22:10 testfiles Dec 15 12:30 test file1 Dec 14 21:45 test ...

Question 14

I use Bash I wrote a command for printing only docker id separate with whitespaces on one line. docker ps -a | grep -E '^[a-z0-9]{12}' -o | awk '{printf "%s ",$0} END {print ""}' ...

Question 15

Spaces in filenames are a problem which is as known as enervating. Nevertheless, there does not seem to be a big list how to prevent them, nor does prevention seem to be supported by the common static ...

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Questions tagged [whitespace]

Is make's $(<D) affected by nearby spaces?

One-liner piping from find/xargs with paths including spaces

How can I take a sub-array in bash of the first N elements of a string array with elements containing spaces?

How can I iterate over the white space separated words returned by a command substition?

Showing whitespace in Ed

How to use unix `mv` to rename files with unicode spaces(not U+20)?

Why does a backslash at the end of the line place undue whitespace?

How to make emacs start in bash by visiting a find command result containing whitespace in its name and double quotes in path? [duplicate]

Expand tabs in file with utf8 characters

Adding 10 whitespace characters using sed

How can I test if a string has any ASCII white space characters in it?

Shell function to center its first argument

Unable to remove space for filenames [closed]

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