Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 17:56:16 +0200 From: "No@SPAM@mgEDV.net" <nospam@mgedv.net> To: "'Giorgos Keramidas'" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Trimming Whitespace From Beginning and end of Text Lines Message-ID: <000d01c675dc$9a36dee0$01010101@avalon.lan> In-Reply-To: <4464A94C.6020606@mac.com>
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> > sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' file ... why not use just (you can change the "-" separator to "/" as above): sed -e 's-^ *--g' -e 's- *$--g' usage examples: -> cat file| sed ... >file1 -> echo $variable| sed ... |grep xy -> if [ "`echo $xy|sed ...`" = "blabla bla" ]; then ... cu...
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