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sed -i not fit for solaris

yael
– yael

2012-08-29 06:31:39 +00:00
Commented Aug 29, 2012 at 6:31
updated my answer.

quanta
– quanta

2012-08-29 06:39:51 +00:00
Commented Aug 29, 2012 at 6:39
Even with GNU sed, that can be a problem (when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set) as [ \t] is meant (as per POSIX) to match space backslash or t. You want [[:blank:]] instead which is POSIX.

Stéphane Chazelas
– Stéphane Chazelas

2012-08-29 13:31:56 +00:00
Commented Aug 29, 2012 at 13:31
For the perl version, use s/=\s*/=/g. and if there's any chance there might be whitespace before the = as well as after it, use: s/\s*=\s*/=/g. and the /g modifier is only necessary if there's a chance there might be more than one = symbol needing whitespace stripping per line.

cas
– cas

2012-08-30 02:53:06 +00:00
Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 2:53

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