Trim trailing spaces from each line in a file

tipsy · #1 (**permalink**) 08-31-2006

Hello folks,
Is there a simple way to trim trailing spaces from each line a file. Please let me know.

Regards,
Tipsy.

tmarikle · #2 (**permalink**) 08-31-2006

sed 's/[ ]*$//' old > new

tmarikle · #3 (**permalink**) 08-31-2006

One more thing.

add a \t to the "[ ]" set to include tabs

tipsy · #4 (**permalink**) 08-31-2006

Thanks tmarikle.

Regards,
Tipsy.

kalyanraj · #5 (**permalink**) 09-13-2006

hi,

The following can be accomplised using Perl script also

[code]
open(i,"<$filein") || die "Can't open $!\n ";
while (!eof(i)) {
$line = <i>;
push @temp, $line;
}
close(i);

foreach $line(@temp) {
$line =~ s/\s+$//o;
}
[\code]

Thanks,
Raj

ghostdog74 · #6 (**permalink**) 09-13-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by tipsy

Hello folks,
Is there a simple way to trim trailing spaces from each line a file. Please let me know.

Regards,
Tipsy.

In Python, if you have it:

Code:

>>> for lines in open("yourfile.txt"):
>>>      print  lines.strip()

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