Removing blank spaces from a file?

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Guys, I need some help... how can I remove the blank spaces between the lines below? (between the date and the hour fields)

21/05/07        00:05:00 99
21/05/07        00:10:01 99
21/05/07        00:15:00 99
21/05/07        00:20:00 99
21/05/07        00:25:00 99

I want to make the file look like:

21/05/07 00:05:00 99
21/05/07 00:10:01 99
21/05/07 00:15:00 99
21/05/07 00:20:00 99
21/05/07 00:25:00 99

Removing the blank spaces and leaving only one blank space between the columns. Is it possible to do that using awk or sed ?

Thanks a lot!

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modifying your input file as below !

21/05/07   00:05:00 99
21/05/07   00:10:01 99
21/05/07   00:15:00 99
21/05/07  00:20:00 99
21/05/07     00:25:00 99

sed 's/  */ /g' filename

there are two spaces in the search block,
<space><space>*

3

matrix, thanks for the answer, but I just noticed that the blank space was created using TAB, how do I do remove that ?

Thanks a lot!

4 
awk '$1=$1' infile

Use nawk on Solaris.

5

thanks a lot guys! I got it working with your tips!

Thanks again!