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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 does

by _flux 14d ago

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 14d 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 14d ago
  You need to use -E to get that behavior with GNU Sed.