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Hi All, I want to achive the following in many of my XML files Before: <Orig Dest ID>D A T A</Orig Dest ID> After <OrigDestID>D A T A</OrigDestID> ie: only the spaces in the tags are removed and not the Value/Data between the tags!!! -regards GS

Name: ghostdog
Date: May 18, 2007 at 08:53:08 Pacific

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[code] awk ' BEGIN { RS="[<>]"; ORS="" } /Orig/ { gsub(" ","",$0); $0 = "<"$0">" } {print $0} ' "file" [/code]

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Hi Ghostdog, Can you plz explain what does RS and ORS stand for and how this code works? where can i find the list of such commands. Thanks Benit

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Name: ghostdog
Date: May 29, 2007 at 08:43:32 Pacific

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RS=record separator, ORS=output record separator. you can google for GNU awk. Read the guide for GNU awk. Or you can read the man page for awk.

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