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Old 05-21-2008
replacing characters

hi all

I have a file that has sone spaces in start then / at last. i want to get rid of this. how to do?

eg.
11414/
49878/
27627/


I WANT THE FILE AS

11414
49878
27627


PLEASE HELP
# 2  
Old 05-21-2008
Code:
sed 's/^ *//' filename | sed 's/\/$//'

# 3  
Old 05-21-2008
Hi,

Try use sed;

sed 's/\// /g' infile > outfile
# 4  
Old 05-21-2008
MySQL

Quote:
Originally Posted by aju_kup
Code:
sed 's/^ *//' filename | sed 's/\/$//'

That worked

Cheers
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