10-05-2010
How to remove white spaces from the beginning an end of a string in unix?
Suppose, I have a variable var=" name is ".
I want to remove the blank spaces from the begining and endonly, not from the entire string.
So, that the variable/string looks like following
var="name is".
Please look after the issue.
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