Question

I have a a CSV file which has a space after every comma. I wish to remove the space after every comma and I try something like:

sed -e 's/ ,/,/g' local.csv > localNoSpaces.csv

But this only removes the space after the first comma on each line. How do I remove the space after all commas?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Just in case that the spaces are not spaces but tabs and spaces you could use

 sed -e 's/\s\+,/,/g' local.csv > localNoSpaces.csv

or if they are after each comma use

 sed -e 's/,\s\+/,/g' local.csv > localNoSpaces.csv