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Old 08-09-2007
hegemaro hegemaro is offline
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To remove leading spaces, use

tail -1 filename | sed -e "s/^ \{1,\}//"

or to removed trailing spaces

tail -1 filename | sed -e "s/ \{1,\}$//"