On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:16:55PM +0100, Peter Bex wrote:
> A simple sed(1) expression should do the trick:
> 
> sed -E 's/ +/ /g' old-file > new-file

I just remembered where I could check, and the GNU sed equivalent is:

sed -r 's/ +/ /g' old-file > new-file

Sorry for the confusion.

Cheers,
Peter
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