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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers [Solved] How remove leading whitespace from xml (sed /awk?) Post 302848127 by gacanepa on Wednesday 28th of August 2013 01:58:58 PM
Old 08-28-2013
Try this:
Code:
gacanepa@debian:~$ cat file.xml
 hola
 chau
 me
 voy
gacanepa@debian:~$ awk '{$1=$1}1' file.xml
hola
chau
me
voy
gacanepa@debian:~$

You may want to redirect the output of the last command to an empty file. Hope it helps.
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diff2patches(1) 														   diff2patches(1)

NAME
diff2patches - Extract non-debian/ patches from .diff.gz files SYNTAX
diff2patches filename diff2patches --help|--version DESCRIPTION
Extracts patches from .diff.gz which apply to files outside the "debian/" directory scope. A patch is created for each modified file. Each patch is named according to the path of the modified file, with "/" replaced by "___", and an extension of ".patch". OPTIONS
filename Extract patches from filename which apply outside the "debian/" directory. --help Output help information and exit. --version Output version information and exit. FILES
debian/control Existence of this file is tested before any patch is extracted. debian/ debian/patches/ Patches are extracted to one of these directories. "debian/patches/" is preferred, if it exists. If DEB_PATCHES is present in the environment, it will override this behavior (see "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" section below). ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
DEB_PATCHES When defined and points to an existing directory, patches are extracted in that directory and not under "debian/" nor "debian/patches/". SEE ALSO
combinediff(1) AUTHOR
Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> Raphael Geissert <;atomo64@gmail.com> diff2patches(1)
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