Questions tagged [whitespace]
combination of spaces, tabs, or newlines which create "empty" space in a line or column
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One-liner piping from find/xargs with paths including spaces
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: $ ...
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How can I iterate over the white space separated words returned by a command substition?
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 ...
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How to use unix `mv` to rename files with unicode spaces(not U+20)?
$ 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 ...
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How to make emacs start in bash by visiting a find command result containing whitespace in its name and double quotes in path? [duplicate]
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/...
starquake
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Adding 10 whitespace characters using sed
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. ...
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Shell function to center its first argument
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 ...
user550837
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Whitespaces in alias bashrc
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 ""}' ...
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Why does nano indent pasted text or code improperly?
When I copy and paste text from the clipboard, the code looks like [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true ...
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