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Re: squeezing blanks out of command lines
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Chris F.A. Johnson |
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Re: squeezing blanks out of command lines |
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Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:57:57 -0500 (EST) |
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Dan Jacobson wrote:
The challenge: at the prompt take a line like
$ this is a long line with lots of space
and turn it into
$ this is a long line with lots of space
With GNU emacs, a mere M-h M-q does the job.
So does M-q (without M-h).
But I bet bash is helpless here.
What's the problem? Don't type the extra spaces.
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