08-04-2008
# delete leading whitespace (spaces, tabs) from front of each line
# aligns all text flush left
sed 's/^[ \t]*//' # see note on '\t' at end of file
# delete trailing whitespace (spaces, tabs) from end of each line
sed 's/[ \t]*$//' # see note on '\t' at end of file
# delete BOTH leading and trailing whitespace from each line
sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'
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Handy one-liners for SED
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trim - Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning and end of a string
SYNOPSIS
string trim (string $str, [string $character_mask = " 0r B"])
DESCRIPTION
This function returns a string with whitespace stripped from the beginning and end of $str. Without the second parameter, trim(3) will
strip these characters:
o " " (ASCII
32 ( 0x20)), an ordinary space.
o " " (ASCII
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o "
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o "
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o "