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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed behavior on hp-ux Post 302116518 by jim mcnamara on Friday 4th of May 2007 04:09:11 PM
Old 05-04-2007
Code:
sed 's/^[        ]*//' file

doee not work, you are correct

Code:
kcsdev:/home/jmcnama> echo "                             hello" | sed 's/^[        ]*//'
hello

It does work on stdin.
Code:
kcsdev:/home/jmcnama> sed 's/^[        ]*//' < file
                                 hello
kcsdev:/home/jmcnama> cat file | sed 's/^[        ]*//'
                                 hello

It just refuses to work on a file, regardless of whether it is stdin or not. That does not make sense.

This works on a file:
Code:
while read record
do
     echo $record |  sed 's/^[        ]*//
done < file > newfile

I do not understand, but it is a workaround.
 

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DESCRIPTION

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