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You could translate all spaces and double quotes to |, then squeeze (and |ss and finallyqueeze) then cut from the 2nd character to the end of line:
tr
|
|s
cut
tr -s '[[:blank:]"]' \| <infile | tr -s \| | cut -c2-
You could translate all spaces and double quotes to |, then squeeze |s and finally cut from the 2nd character to the end of line:
tr '[[:blank:]"]' \| <infile | tr -s \| | cut -c2-
You could translate all spaces and double quotes to | (and squeeze) then cut from the 2nd character to the end of line:
s
tr -s '[[:blank:]"]' \| <infile | cut -c2-
