I'm trying to find a command that will trim the white space off a string.
e.g.
$str = " stuf "
$str = trim ( $str )
echo $str // ouput would just be stuf
Thanks, Mark (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have been trying to remove whitespace from a file using sed. Here is an example of what im trying to do:
www1 = www1
www2 = www2
www3 = www3
and all the way to 300 and i want it to look like:
www1=www1
www2-www2
www3=www3
again upto 300
Any help... (12 Replies)
Hmmm... Bash doesn't parse whitespace with a read.
lev@sys09:~$ read line; echo "$line"
test
test
You can imagine what this does if you're using a shell script to read a list of unknown file names containing unknown spaces.
lev@sys09:~$ read word1 word2; echo "$word1,$word2"
123 456... (2 Replies)
I have a file that I am spliting and parsing, if data starts with an N/n toos it (which works) but I want it to also see if the data is blank and toss it.
What I have does not toss the blank space for dduck????
here is the data file and code I have.....
efudd 7546
bbunny N0542
tdevil... (3 Replies)
I combined 2 files using the paste command. It gave me something like this:
123445 ,AABBNN
22344 ,BBVVMM
I want to remove the whitespace between the end of string 1 and the comma (there is more blank space than my post is showing). Would I... (2 Replies)
I have a single string as below:
Rat run after Cat
i.e. there is a single whitespace after Cat.
This causes my file to fail.
Is there a way I can remove any whitespace at the end of any string.
I tried sed 's/ *//g', but it removes all white space and the above string becomes... (10 Replies)
Hi
Following is an example line.
echo "192.22.22.22 \"33dffwef\" 200 300 dsdsd" | sed "s:\(\ *\ \):\1:"
I want it's output to be
200
However this is not the case. Can you tell me how to do it? I don't want to use AWK for this. Secondly, how can i fetch just 300? Should I use "\2"... (3 Replies)
Hello I am working aon script, that tells me how many users or on the system when i run it.
The script is
#!/bin/bash
w | cut -f 1 -d ' ' |sort -u | wc -l
When ran it shows 16 users including myself and a line of white space.
I was wondering what I need to add to remove my user... (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
I am working with large data sets and often times realize that not all of the columns are aligned correctly (sometimes rows will be shifted). So when I try to do something like:
awk '{ if ($2 > 30 && $5 == $3){print}}' file > output
it won't really work since some of the rows... (2 Replies)
This is my file
.........hostname.............this is hostname
.........alias...................alias name
Remark use dot(.) instead of whitespace B'cuz this forum not allow to use more whitespace.
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I sperate by whitespace not work.
awk 'BEGIN {FS=" "}... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: cyberking
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
mhpath
mhpath(1mh)mhpath(1mh)Name
mhpath - print full pathnames of MH messages and folders
Syntax
mhpath [ +foldername ] [ msgs ] [ -help ]
Description
Use the command to display the full pathname of the specified folder. If you do not specify a folder, displays the pathname of the current
folder.
If you specify a message with its message number, displays the pathname of the specified message. You can also specify a number of mes-
sages, or a range of messages. If the top of the range that you specify is greater than the last message in the folder, displays as much
of the specified range as possible.
Additionally can take a keyword or a sequence name. The following keywords are acceptable:
first The first message in the folder.
last The last message in the folder.
new The message after the last message in the folder. You cannot use new as part of a message range.
cur The current message in the folder.
prev The message before the current message.
next The message after the current message.
all All of the messages in the folder.
Options-help Prints a list of the valid options to this command.
Examples
In the following example, displays message 3 in the folder
% mhpath +inbox 3
/r/phyl/Mail/inbox
The following example displays the pathname of messages 2 to 5 in the current folder:
% mhpath 2-5
/r/phyl/Mail/inbox/2
/r/phyl/Mail/inbox/3
/r/phyl/Mail/inbox/4
/r/phyl/Mail/inbox/5
Profile Components
Path: To determine your Mail directory
Files
The user profile.
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