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Old 06-18-2003
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re: removing trailing space from lines
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Originally posted by sameerbo
Hi,

How can we remove the all trailing spaces of a line from a file.


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Sameer.
Not sure why this thread was closed without any explanation, but you can do what you're asking with sed 's/[[:blank:]]*$//g' < sourceFile > destFile