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... (7 Replies)
I am trying to strip all leading and trailing spaces of a shell variable using either awk or sed or any other utility, however unscuccessful and need your help.
echo $SH_VAR | command_line Syntax.
The SH_VAR contains embedded spaces which needs to be preserved. I need only for the leading and... (6 Replies)
Hi ,
i have to strip the spaces in the string which has the following value
ABC DEF
i want this to appear like this
ABC DEF
is there any spilt method?
please help....
Thanks (3 Replies)
#!/bin/bash
TESTVAR=" 5spaces"
echo $TESTVAR
hostame:~# ./test.sh
5spaces
The leading spaces from my variable are removed when the content is echo'd. I am trying to make some tabular data.
`echo -e` also fails.
Any suggestions? (2 Replies)
hello everyone. I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I have 2 files. It looks like this:
File 1:
abc1, defg, 50.00, mno,990
abc2, cats, 100.00, pops,991
abc3, dogs, 1.00, treat,992
File 2:
990, airplanes, runway, doctor
991, jets, birds, much
990,... (13 Replies)
Hi Experts,
In a file tht i copied from the web , i am not able to remove the leading white spaces. I tried the below , none of them working . I opened the file through vi to check for the special characters if any , but no such characters found.
Your advice will be greatly appreciated.
sed... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am having problem in deleting the leading spaces:-
cat x.csv
baseball,NULL,8798765,Most played
baseball,NULL,8928192,Most played
baseball,NULL,5678945,Most played
cricket,NOTNULL,125782,Usually played
cricket,NOTNULL,678921,Usually played
$ nawk 'BEGIN{FS=","}!a... (2 Replies)
data.txt
{
"auth_type": "role",
"default_attributes": {
"sudoers": {
i need to know how manyspaces are before an actual character in each line of a file.
for example. in the above data.txt,
There are 0 spaces leading up to {
There are 4 spaces leading up to the... (7 Replies)
OS : RHEL 6.7
Shell : bash
I am trying to remove the leading the spaces in the below file
$ cat pattern2.txt
hello1
hello2
hello3
hello4
Expected output is shown below.
$ cat pattern2.txt
hello1
hello2
hello3
hello4 (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: John K
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Write each FILE to standard output, with line numbers added.
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