remove leading spaces from a line - Shell Programming and Scripting

lijojoseph · #3 (**permalink**) 03-15-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Franklin52

Code:

awk '/^ /{print p $0; p=""; next}
p !~ /^ / && p {print p}
{p=$0}
END{if(!/^ /) {print}}
' file

Regards

Hello Franklin,
I tried with the above option it is giving syntax error for second line
error messages are
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awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1
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also i tried with awk '/^ /{print p$0;next}{p=$0}END{print}' but here it will not consider the lines without a leading space

pls help