Removing specific field seperator to combine two fields
 

Hello all, here is my first post!

I am trying to remove the space between the 2nd and 3rd fields but just cannot work out how to do it. I've considered sed, cut, awk...
I know with sed you can replace all instances within a file but can you also specify to remove, say, the 2nd instance of a space in each line (this would be perfect for me)?

DAAE 60 402 Bejaia Algeria 1 36-43N 005-04E 36-43N 005-04E 2 2 P
DAAG 60 390 Dar-El-Beida Algeria 1 36-43N 003-15E 36-43N 003-15E 25 25 P
DAAJ 60 670 Djanet Algeria 1 24-33N 009-28E 24-33N 009-28E 1054 1054 P
DAAP 60 640 Illizi Algeria 1 26-30N 008-25E 26-30N 008-25E 558 558 P
DAAS 60 445 Setif Algeria 1 36-11N 005-25E 36-11N 005-25E 1038 1081 P
DAAV 60 351 Jijel Achouat Algeria 1 36-53N 005-49E 2 10 P
DAAY 60 549 Mecheria Algeria 1 34-56N 000-26W 34-56N 000-26W 1149 1149 P

Thanks everyone.

A bit confused...if you know you can do it in sed, why didn't you DO it? Lots of documentation/examples can be found via Google.

Try "sed 's/ //2'".

This will do it too:

I said I knew how to take out ALL instances using sed but couldn't work out how to specify just a particular part of a line.

[Try "sed 's/ //2'"] - yep it worked! I didn't know that placing the 2 there specified which one to take out.

Thanks.