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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting trim whitespace? Post 77398 by tmarikle on Thursday 7th of July 2005 07:04:32 PM
Old 07-07-2005
Here is one way to trim spaces (KSH syntax):
Code:
$ str=$(print "$str" | nawk '{gsub(/^[ ]*/,"",$0); gsub(/[ ]*$/,"",$0) ; print }')

You can certainly expand it to eliminate other characters.
 

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