Re: Bash script question.

[Reinhard Müller <reinhard mueller bytewise at>]

Philippe Doucet wrote:
> I have a file that contains a single word. I"m trying to find a
> command that will put a white space between each letters of the word.

try:
cat filename | sed -e "s/./ &/g

this also puts a whitespace in front of the word. You can remove that by
doing
cat filename | sed -e "s/./ &/g | sed -e "s/^ //"

but I'm sure there are more elegant ways for doing the latter.

BTW I don't see anything gnome-specific about this problem :)
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