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Split text file by whitespace
I have a very large text file with multiple columns of data.
I.e.
1312.4123 asdkofADkofaO213 dakofasdjodas Fri Mar 2013 15:23:11
..
..
..
etc.
I wish to split this text file into multiple subsets, ...
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Indexing text with letter spacing emphasis
In the past I have sometimes used letter spacing to emphasize text.
This is some important note about a
previously performed task where the
i m p o r t a n t k e y w o r d s
are emphasized by l ...
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How to avoid trailing spaces when you copy something from terminal?
I often copy a code snippet from a SSH terminal session where i'm logged in to some remote server and have a file opened in vim, for example to paste it here into an answer at SO. It frequently ...
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Can not stat over a file name having space in it
I m very new to shell scripting and writing a script for a project. I am having a problem while doing "stat" on a file name, to check size, which has spaces in it.
The problem is that I can not write ...
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How can I specify an /EXCLUDE file with spaces in it to xcopy?
I have tried to specify an /EXCLUDE filename with spaces in it to xcopy, but it always chokes. How can I specify such a path to xcopy without copying the /EXCLUDE files into the current directory and ...
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Trim trailing newline in one-liner bash alias
I'm trying to write a simple alias on my Mac OS X terminal to copy the current working directory. I have this:
alias cpwd="echo \`pwd\` | pbcopy; echo \"Copied \`pwd\`\""
Then I can just run the ...
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Vim, listchars not displaying tabs at the begin of the line
I use listcharsin my .vimrcto see the whitespace. My current setting is :
set list listchars=nbsp:¤,tab:>-,trail:¤,extends:>,precedes:<
And that give to me, for example this :
>---Foo ...
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How to start/open a file/folder that contains space in its name through command-line?
I'm trying to use the start command in the command prompt to open files and folders, but I'm unable to open files and folders that contain space(s) in their name.
I have tried the following queries ...
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How to reclaim white space in a converted microsoft word document?
After converting a document from pdf to docx I find that it's very difficult to edit anything without damaging the layout because I can't write over the existing white space.
Like for example:
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AppleScript: how do I store folders' pathnames into an array, replacing spaces with “\ ”?
I have a folder and inside this folder there's a bunch of subfolders. Using AppleScript I wish to store the pathnames of these subfolders into an array.
Here's my problem: each pathname containing " ...
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Modify Sublime Text 2 whitespace representation?
Is there a way to modify the whitespace representation characters so I can change it from dots and dashes to something else?
Because I currently have whitespace characters being drawn always, it ...
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How to remove leading whitespace from file and folder names?
How to remove leading whitespace from file and folder names? (I'm running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.)
As provided below by @Lri I was able to remove trailing whitespace using this:
#!/bin/bash
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Search recursively for a string containing whitespaces
I want to search for "this table..." string under /home/myuser directory recursively, ie in all files under /home/myuser and in all directories and sub-directories under /home/myuser.
/home/myuser ...
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What is the whitespace indicated with a dot in TextMate?
In the screenshot of TextMate below, I turned on "Show Invisibles." What's the whitespace character on the third line?
Text I imported from somewhere has these dot spaces, and I'm trying to figure ...
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How to remove trailing whitespace from file extensions and folders snow?
How can I remove trailing whitespace from file extensions and folders in snow leopard ?
Ideally I would be able to run a single command within a directory that would search and remove for all files ...
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Word 2010: Remove space before citation
When I insert a citation into my document (testing with the IEEE 2006 style here), I end up with something like this:
This is some text ( [1], [2])
As you can see Word 2010 adds a space between ...
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sed removal of whitespace
I find that sed often fails to pattern-match whitespace. Consider the following examples:
echo 'A B C' | sed 's/[ \t]*//g'
ABC
echo -e 'A\tB\tC' | sed 's/[ \t]*//g'
A B C
perl ...
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Can't run Katawa Shojo game, failes with “undefined symbol: SDL_RWFromFile” [closed]
I was trying to run the freeware game Katawa Shojo, and I cannot run the Katawa Shojo.sh file. One problem is that when the filepath has spaces (it comes in a folder 'Katawa Shojo' to start with) it ...
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How to make VI use spaces instead of tab even when I press backspace key?
When I tried to use yml, it requires NO TAB, ONLY SPACE policy.
I realized I need a special setting for this.
Anyway, I can't live without tabs. So I want to make my VI behave like this.
When I ...
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Merging and re-formatting paragraphs in Microsoft Word 2007
After a copy/paste mishap in Microsoft Word 2007, I ended up with text looking like this:
This line breaks up here
continues here, and so on
here, when it should all be
in a single line ...
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Remove Lines in VIM with Only Whitespace
Is there a vim idiom for removing all lines from a file that have only whitespace (including newlines)?
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Is there a way to not select whitespace after a word when double-clicking?
In Windows, it seems the default behavior when double-clicking a word is to select the word, and any whitespace following the word (spaces or tabs). You can see this behavior across all programs, so ...
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delete whitespace left and right in notepad++
In Notepad++, is there a hotkey to wipe all white space left and right of the cursor? I'd imagine it would be the same as "delete current word", but I can't find it.
Ctrl + Del deletes to the end of ...
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Jump to first non-whitespace character in line in emacs
I'm looking for the emacs equivalent of vi's ^.
How can I move my cursor to the first non-whitespace character in a line?
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sed to remove all whitespace from a line
I am wanting to use sed to remove all space characters from a text file. At present I am using this:
sed 's/ //' test.txt > test2.txt
This works in the sense that it removes the first space ...
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How to match whitespace in sed?
How can I match whitespace in sed? In my data I want to match all of 3+ subsequent whitespace characters (tab space) and replace them by 2 spaces. How can this be done?
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how can I tell vimdiff to ignore whitespace?
I made a number of changes in a file I'm working on, including indentation changes. I'm using vimdiff to compare the file to the original version, and I don't want to see these changes, since they're ...
