I have output a file and need to remove blank spaces in the first lines only so the file is left end justified. I need to do this while keeping the rest of the file intact.
Example of file that needs spaces removed:
space
space space
space space space
space... (3 Replies)
I stored results like this
VAR=`wc -l < ls.txt`
But the value of the wc gave me a padded number.
How do I strip the padding from $VAR?
Do you think I could use SED?
Except instead of a file input, have a variable redirection input? (2 Replies)
Hi I have an XML file. Which has spaces between different records....
current file( Has many lines, like this... I want to delete all the spaces between > and <, if there are only spaces between them)
input file
<xyzr> <abc>1234</xyzr> <aaa> <bbb> ayz mnz</bbb> <sen>KEA... (6 Replies)
hey..
i had a problem with the unix command when i want to remove the white spaces in a string..i guess i cud do it with a sed command but i get an error when i give space in the square brackets..
string="nh hjh llk"
p=`echo $string | sed 's/ //g'`
i donno how to give space charater and... (2 Replies)
Hey,
I'm using the command from this thread https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/590-converting-list-into-line.html
to convert vertical lines to horzontal lines. But I need to remove the spaces that is created. Unfortunately I can't figure out where the space is in the code..
I... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to remove spaces from data.
Data is:
1,aa ,21, 22
2,a a ,23 ,24
3, ,25 ,26
output should be:
1,aa,21,22
2,a a,23,24
3, ,25,26
i.e
i have to remove leading and trailing spaces.Not the space between data and also i dont want to remove the space if data is... (4 Replies)
Hello All,
I am trying to remove all tabspaces and all blankspaces from my file using sed & awk, but not getting proper code. Please help me out.
My file is like this (<b> means one blank space, <t> means one tab space)-
$ cat file
NARESH<b><b><b>KUMAR<t><t>PRADHAN... (3 Replies)
I have a problem mounting images because of the spaces in the filenames. Does anyone know how to rename files by removing the spaces with the find command?
find Desktop/$dir -name "*.dmg" -print -exec ??? (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to set 10 set of strings into a variable where:
removing all spaces within each string
change the delimiter from "|" to ","
Currently, I've the below script like this:Table=`ten character strings with spaces in-between and each string with delimiter "|" | tr -d ' ' |... (7 Replies)
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escapeshellarg
ESCAPESHELLARG(3) 1 ESCAPESHELLARG(3)escapeshellarg - Escape a string to be used as a shell argumentSYNOPSIS
string escapeshellarg (string $arg)
DESCRIPTION escapeshellarg(3) adds single quotes around a string and quotes/escapes any existing single quotes allowing you to pass a string directly
to a shell function and having it be treated as a single safe argument. This function should be used to escape individual arguments to
shell functions coming from user input. The shell functions include exec(3), system(3) and the backtick operator.
On Windows, escapeshellarg(3) instead removes percent signs, replaces double quotes with spaces and adds double quotes around the string.
PARAMETERS
o $arg
- The argument that will be escaped.
RETURN VALUES
The escaped string.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
escapeshellarg(3) example
<?php
system('ls '.escapeshellarg($dir));
?>
SEE ALSO escapeshellcmd(3), exec(3), popen(3), system(3), backtick operator.
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