i am a bit new to shell scripting
i have a file containing
xxxx xx xx
but i want to output the content as
xxxxxxxx.
thus removing the space.
any idea how i can do this
Use tr
tr -d ' ' < file
$
echo "xxxx xx xx" | sed 's/ //g'
xxxxxxxx
-Devaraj Takhellambam
Thanks but how can i use the output as a variable
output=`echo "xxxx xx xx" | sed 's/ //g'`