Replace remove white spaces after a tab

[Korelis]

I have tried to find a way to correct a problem I am having with a file being written. I write the file using these commands:

gawk -F"\t" '{ print $2"\t" $3"\t" | "sort" }' backupsets > bset1
awk NF bset2 > bset3
sed /"ACCT #"/d bset3 >bset4
sed /"800-000-0000"/d bset4 >bset5
sed /"713-000-0000"/d bset5 > bset6
tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' < bset6 > cbset
sed 's/^ //g' cbset >cbset1
rm -rf bset*

Instead of getting tabs I get a tab with a few spaces. I want to remove the space. I have tried different sed strings to get this done but it still does not work. Any thoughts?

[ghostdog74]

you don't need to use that much *nix tools ..as always, show your input and describe your output.

[Korelis]

When I am done with that top part the file looks like

ACC006000AK     WWW1\FILES ON C$,SYSTEM STATE AND SERVICES DATABASE\ADMIN001
ACC006000AK     WWW1\MICROSOFT SQL SERVER\ADMIN001
ACC006000AK     WWW2\FILES ON C$,SYSTEM STATE AND SERVICES DATABASE\ADMIN002
ACC006000AK     WWW2\MICROSOFT SQL SERVER\ADMIN001
ACC006000DG     MYSQL\192.168.100.120\INFORMATION_SCHEMA, LAVA, MYSQL\ADROOT
ACC006000DG     UNIX-SSH\172.16.40.53\/*\ADROOT

Instead of the spaces from ACC00600AK and DG it should be a tab then the last part.

[Cabhan]

This isn't very helpful, since posting it on the forum removes tabs.

Show us what the original file (before you did anything) looks like, describe it in words (so we don't miss anything), and then do the same to what the final result should be.

[apoorv_khurasia]

Are you trying to replace white spaces to get tabs? And as Cabhan said attach files (input.txt and desired_output.txt).