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Replace two or more spaces in the text file with;

File1:

hello      world
foo   bar
a  word with a space

I need to replace all white spaces that are two or more long with a semicolon (;).

Result:

File2:

hello;world
foo;bar
a;word with a space
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sed -e 's/  \+/;/g' File1 > File2


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$ gawk 'BEGIN{FS="  +"}{$1=$1}1' OFS=";" file
hello;world
foo;bar
a;word with a space

$ awk '{gsub(/  +/,";")}1' file
hello;world
foo;bar
a;word with a space


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Try:

sed -e 's/  */;/g' file
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