Condense the white space in a text file. I feel like I always run into a collection of text files that for one reason or another are filled to the gills with terrible white space. This cli utility helps to condense these files and remove duplicative white space characters.
Condense a string from stdin or read a file in.
If modifying a file, pass the --inplace flag to modify the file where it is.
$ condense --help
Remove repetitive white space characters
Usage: condense [OPTIONS] [DATA]
Arguments:
[DATA] An input string to condense
Options:
-f, --file <FILE> Should read from file instead of stdin
-a, --aggressive Whether to consider all consecutive white spaces as duplicates
--one aggressivly condense input to one line with only single spaces
-i, --inplace If sent a file file, edit in place
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print versionYou can run the util over every file in a directory with
find <my_dir> -type f -print | xargs -I {} ./condense -f {}And if you use Parallel, then you should be able to do the following to condense ever file in a directory concurrently
# I haven't tested this yet
find <my_dir> -type f -print | parallel -j4 ./condense -f {}