sed over writes my original file (using sed to remove leading spaces)
Hello and thx for reading this
I'm using sed to remove only the leading spaces in a file
That works great, however I really don't want to rename the file.
I was hoping this would work
It just overwrites foofile and makes it blank.
Is there a way to get around this and keep the original file name w/ the modification of removing leading spaces.
Hello,
I have the following to remove spaces from beginning and end of a string.
infile=`echo "$infilename" | sed 's/^ *//;s/ *$//`
How do I modify the above code to remove spaces from beginning, end and in the middle of the string also.
ex:
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I tried searching the forum but couldn't find a solution for my question.
I have the following data and would like to have a sed syntax to remove the leading zeroes from the 2nd field only:
Before:
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Hi all,
i am getting count from oracle 11g by spooling it to a file.
Now there are some newline characters and blank spaces i need to remove these.
pl provide me a awk/sed solution.
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Hi All,
I have a vexing issue with leading spaces in file names. Basically, we're moving tons of data from our ancient afp file share to Box.com and Box forbids leading spaces in files or folders. The HFS file system seems to be perfectly fine with this, but almost all other Unix file systems... (1 Reply)
Hi again
I have an xml file and want to remove the leading white space as it causes me issues later in my script
I see sed is possible but cant seem to get it to work
I tried
sed 's/^ *//' file.xml
output
<xn:VsDataContainer id="1U104799" modifier="update">
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Hi,
I am trying to remove leading and trailing spaces from a file using awk but somehow I have not been able to do it.
Here is the data that I want to trim.
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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)
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