All,
I'm a newbie at shell scripting and regular expressions and I just need to take a file that's arranged like the one below, remove all leading and trailing whitespace and add a line break after each word. I've been able to remove a few spaces using various awk, sed and Perl scripts, but... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have been trying to remove whitespace from a file using sed. Here is an example of what im trying to do:
www1 = www1
www2 = www2
www3 = www3
and all the way to 300 and i want it to look like:
www1=www1
www2-www2
www3=www3
again upto 300
Any help... (12 Replies)
Hmmm... Bash doesn't parse whitespace with a read.
lev@sys09:~$ read line; echo "$line"
test
test
You can imagine what this does if you're using a shell script to read a list of unknown file names containing unknown spaces.
lev@sys09:~$ read word1 word2; echo "$word1,$word2"
123 456... (2 Replies)
Hello forums!
I've been tinkering with a shell script to partition and restore content to a drive based on a type of file in a given directory. My goal is for my script to assemble several restore images, partition the drive based on the images and to then restore those images to the partitions... (1 Reply)
I combined 2 files using the paste command. It gave me something like this:
123445 ,AABBNN
22344 ,BBVVMM
I want to remove the whitespace between the end of string 1 and the comma (there is more blank space than my post is showing). Would I... (2 Replies)
I have a single string as below:
Rat run after Cat
i.e. there is a single whitespace after Cat.
This causes my file to fail.
Is there a way I can remove any whitespace at the end of any string.
I tried sed 's/ *//g', but it removes all white space and the above string becomes... (10 Replies)
Hi
Following is an example line.
echo "192.22.22.22 \"33dffwef\" 200 300 dsdsd" | sed "s:\(\ *\ \):\1:"
I want it's output to be
200
However this is not the case. Can you tell me how to do it? I don't want to use AWK for this. Secondly, how can i fetch just 300? Should I use "\2"... (3 Replies)
Hello I am working aon script, that tells me how many users or on the system when i run it.
The script is
#!/bin/bash
w | cut -f 1 -d ' ' |sort -u | wc -l
When ran it shows 16 users including myself and a line of white space.
I was wondering what I need to add to remove my user... (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
I am working with large data sets and often times realize that not all of the columns are aligned correctly (sometimes rows will be shifted). So when I try to do something like:
awk '{ if ($2 > 30 && $5 == $3){print}}' file > output
it won't really work since some of the rows... (2 Replies)
This is my file
.........hostname.............this is hostname
.........alias...................alias name
Remark use dot(.) instead of whitespace B'cuz this forum not allow to use more whitespace.
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I sperate by whitespace not work.
awk 'BEGIN {FS=" "}... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: cyberking
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
trim
textutil::trim(n) Text and string utilities, macro processing textutil::trim(n)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
textutil::trim - Procedures to trim strings
SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.2
package require textutil::trim ?0.7?
::textutil::trim::trim string ?regexp?
::textutil::trim::trimleft string ?regexp?
::textutil::trim::trimright string ?regexp?
::textutil::trim::trimPrefix string prefix
::textutil::trim::trimEmptyHeading string
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
The package textutil::trim provides commands that trim strings using arbitrary regular expressions.
The complete set of procedures is described below.
::textutil::trim::trim string ?regexp?
Remove in string any leading and trailing substring according to the regular expression regexp and return the result as a new
string. This is done for all lines in the string, that is any substring between 2 newline chars, or between the beginning of the
string and a newline, or between a newline and the end of the string, or, if the string contain no newline, between the beginning
and the end of the string. The regular expression regexp defaults to "[ \t]+".
::textutil::trim::trimleft string ?regexp?
Remove in string any leading substring according to the regular expression regexp and return the result as a new string. This apply
on any line in the string, that is any substring between 2 newline chars, or between the beginning of the string and a newline, or
between a newline and the end of the string, or, if the string contain no newline, between the beginning and the end of the string.
The regular expression regexp defaults to "[ \t]+".
::textutil::trim::trimright string ?regexp?
Remove in string any trailing substring according to the regular expression regexp and return the result as a new string. This apply
on any line in the string, that is any substring between 2 newline chars, or between the beginning of the string and a newline, or
between a newline and the end of the string, or, if the string contain no newline, between the beginning and the end of the string.
The regular expression regexp defaults to "[ \t]+".
::textutil::trim::trimPrefix string prefix
Removes the prefix from the beginning of string and returns the result. The string is left unchanged if it doesn't have prefix at
its beginning.
::textutil::trim::trimEmptyHeading string
Looks for empty lines (including lines consisting of only whitespace) at the beginning of the string and removes it. The modified
string is returned as the result of the command.
BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category textutil
of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for
either package and/or documentation.
SEE ALSO
regexp(n), split(n), string(n)
KEYWORDS
prefix, regular expression, string, trimming
CATEGORY
Text processing
textutil 0.7 textutil::trim(n)