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+1 for the simplicity of the real answer, iostat | tr -s \

Wildcard
– Wildcard

2015-10-23 14:50:51 +00:00
Commented Oct 23, 2015 at 14:50
'tr -s \ ' is the same as 'tr -s " "'. Made me realise that space can be passed as a argument in the string by escaping with "\". I see that it can be used in shell scripts as well. Cool application.

randominstanceOfLivingThing
– randominstanceOfLivingThing

2018-01-09 16:52:10 +00:00
Commented Jan 9, 2018 at 16:52

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