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_flux 19 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Using jq to format JSON on the clipboard

I use similar approach for fixing up clipboard contents with

  tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/\t/ /g; s/  */ /g'

But also I switched to xsel at one point, as xclip doesn't seem to deal as well with unicode. It could be xclip has been fixed since then, though.

CamJN 19 days ago [–]

/\ \ */ is the same as / +/, but if you only want to replace 2+ spaces and leave the single spaces alone, then what you really want is /\ \ +/.

Edit: had to escape the spaces because HN ate my spaces.

_flux 19 days ago | [–]

You need to use -E to get that behavior with GNU Sed.

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