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Old 10-28-2003
sleepster sleepster is offline
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Leading and Trailing Spaces
Hi,

how to i remove leading and trailing spaces from a line? the spaces can be behind or in front of any field or line

example of a line in the input data:

Amy Reds , 100 , /bin/sh

how to i get it to be: Amy Read,100,/bin/sh

i saw something on this on the Man pages for AWK but i dont really understand what it was talking about.. could someone help?

thanks