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I have done the following at command line:

text="name with space"

echo $text

name with space

I am trying to use tr -d ' ' to remove the spaces and have a result of:

namewithspace

I've tried a few things like:

text=echo $text | tr -d ' '

No luck so far so hopefully you wonderful folk can help!

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Just modify your text variable as below. 

text=$(echo $text | tr -d ' ')
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Wonderful! I was soooo close. As a noob I am pleased I was heading the right direction! Thank you for the fast response as well, as soon as I have waited 8 minutes I will submit this as the answer! –  user3347022 3 hours ago
    
@user3347022, you are welcome :) –  Ramesh 2 hours ago
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In Bash, you can use Bash's built in string manipulation. In this case, you can do:

> text="some text with spaces"
> echo "${text// /}"
sometextwithspaces

For more on the string manipulation operators, see http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html

However, your original strategy would also, work, your syntax is just a bit off:

> text2=$(echo $text | tr -d ' ')
> echo $text2
sometextwithspaces
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I didn't even think of that, was in a tr mood working on this! Great answer as well! –  user3347022 1 hour ago

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