Uh............ try Google? (Hint: look for "Oracle" + "trim") On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Yeah, its a matter of time. If I can just fix the output files with some > simple commands its easy. To do it the other way, I have to go and modify > 32 separate queries. > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Michael Moore <michaeljmoore@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> select last name||'|'||first_name from ... etc >> >> In other words, avoid the problem in the first place. This might not be an >> option for you. >> >> Mike >> >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Radoulov, Dimitre <cichomitiko@xxxxxxxxx >> > wrote: >> >>> On 18/01/2011 17:50, Andrew Kerber wrote: >>> >>>> Does anyone have a unix script to trim spaces prior to the column >>>> separators in sqlplus output, ie, I have output like his: >>>> >>>> LAST NAME |FIRST NAME |BIRTHDAY >>>> Kerber |Andrew |Aug01 >>>> >>>> That I want to look like this: >>>> >>>> LAST NAME|FIRST NAME|BIRTHDAY >>>> Kerber|Andrew|Aug01 >>>> >>> >>> >>> sed 's# *|#|#g' infile >>> >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> Dimitre >>> >>> -- >>> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Andrew W. Kerber > > 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.' >