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what is “an invisible whitespace character that takes up space”
One can look up Unicode Characters with Regular Expressions. On Jan Goyvaerts website I found a RegExp whose meaning I don't understand :
\p{Zs} or \p{Space_Separator}: a whitespace character that ...
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Generic Preprocessor adds extra whitespace
Following up on this article I use GPP to empower Markdown parser pandoc with some macros. Unfortunately, gpp seems to copy all whitespace into the result.
For example, consider file test.md
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How to use whitespace in procmailrc recipe destination path?
I use Mutt Maildir for storage mails.
I created one mailbox like this Stack Exchange/. (whitespace between Stack and Exchange here)
procmailrc recipe:
:0
* From: .*Stack\ Exchange
Stack Exchange/
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Emacs + whitespace: ignoring 'normal' spaces
I would like to use whitespace to detect wrong whitespace (i.e. trailing whitespace on line, tabs instead of spaces etc.).
However I would like to still have spaces displayed as spaces. I tried to ...
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Removing all spaces, tabs, newlines, etc from a variable?
This is the error I am getting and it's failing because of a variable whose value is supposed to be 2 (I am getting this using a select * from tabel).
I am getting spaces in that variable.
+ 0 !=
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Using files that have spaces in their name in pipes
I have folder named play which contains a file damn file (with space). When I use find and pipe the output to tar:
find play/ -name 'damn*' | tar cf archive.tar -T -
It works perfectly. Why does ...
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Strip trailing whitespace from files
The answer to removing trailing whitespace with sed has most of the answer, but I want
sed -i 's/[ \t]*$//' $1
to be able to take arbitrary number of file arguments as a shell script on the command ...
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Rsyncing multiple files with white spaces in the names
I'm trying to back up files onto a server, but I'm having problems with files that have white spaces in the names.
I'm using this command in terminal:
FILES="testing/space\ in\ filename testing/and\ ...
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Ignore whitespaces changes in all git commands
I've found tons of sites that explain how to have git warn you when you're changing line endings, or miscellaneous other techniques to prevent you from messing up an entire file. Assume it's too late ...
