11-10-2008
Remove spaces from first field, and write entire contents into other text file
Hi all,
I have searched and found various threads about removing spaces from a field within a text file. Unfortunately, I have not found exactly what I'm looking for, nor am I adept enough to modify what I've found into what I need.
I use the following command to remove the first line from a text file (the column headers): sed 1d file > file2
I then want to strip the leading spaces from the first field only, but so far, all I can do is the following: cat file2 | awk '{print $1}' > file3
That successfully strips the spaces, but only gives me that one field. Since the number of fields could vary from day to day (an updated field is received every night, and additional fields are often added), how can I modify that script to ensure all fields are written to the new file with the spaces stripped only from the first field?
Thank you,
Carrie
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NAME
mencal - menstruation calendar
SYNOPSIS
mencal [options] [file1 file2 ... -c CONF1 -c CONF2 ...]
DESCRIPTION
Display options:
-m, --monday
draw monday as first weekday (sunday is default)
-1 current month (default)
-3 previous, current and next month
-y [YYYY]
all-year calendar (default YYYY is current year)
-q, --quiet
no top information will be printed
-n, --nocolor
noncolored output
-i, --icolor COLOR
intersection color (default red)
available colors: red, green, blue, yellow, violet, cyan, shiny, bold
mencal configuration:
-c, --config
s=[YYYY]MMDD,l=LL,d=DD,n=NAME,f=FILE,c=COLOR
The second argument is a comma separated list of options. No spaces are allowed in this list. If no name is specified, 'Unknown' is
used. Various -c options or filenames can be set.
s,start=[YYYY]MMDD
start day of period (default current day)
l,length=LL
length of period in days (default 28)
d,duration=D
duration of menstruation in days (default 4)
n,name=NAME
name of subject
f,file=FILE
filename to save configuration to (see section FILES)
only menstruation related variables will be saved
c,color=COLOR
color used for menstruation days
available colors: red, green, blue, yellow, violet, cyan, shiny, bold default color is red, with '-n' switch color settings are
ignored
Info options:
-h, --help
print help
-V, --version
print version information
FILES
:
$HOME/.mencalrc - the default configuration file that is automatically loaded
AUTHOR
:
(C) 2002 C. McCohy
e-mail: <mccohy@kyberdigi.cz>
Word-Wide-Web: http://www.kyberdigi.cz/projects/mencal/english
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page (but may be
used by others).
HISTORY
22 March 2002 - Originally written by Amaya Rodrigo <amaya@debian.org>.
24 Apr 2002 - New manpage contributed by Pablo S. Torralba <psanchez@skyrealms.org>.
Amaya Rodrigo <amaya@debian.org> is now responsible for developing and maintaining this manual page. Comments and suggestions are greatly
wellcome.
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