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 are not. Of course, our users put leading spaces in some of their file names and folders so that those files and folders would show up at the top of the directory listing in the Finder. I have almost seven thousand of these instances spread out among 600 gigs of file data. My bash script already strips out illegal characters, however, I'm not sure how to add leading spaces to the script. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello and thx for reading this
I'm using sed to remove only the leading spaces in a file
bash-280R# cat foofile
some text
some text
some text
some text
some text
bash-280R#
bash-280R# sed 's/^ *//' foofile > foofile.use
bash-280R# cat foofile.use
some text
some text
some text... (6 Replies)
Dear All,
can you please advice how do i remove trailing and leading spaces from a pipe-delimited file using "tr" command
the below cmd, i tried removed all spaces
tr -d ' '<s1.txt>s2.txt1
Many thx
Suresh (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I have spaces in between file names.
"Material Header.txt"
"Customer Header.txt"
"Vendor Header.txt"
And how can I remove spaces between file names like below
MaterialHeader.txt
CustomerHeader.txt
VendorHeader.txt
Thanks
Srimitta (10 Replies)
Hi Experts,
In a file tht i copied from the web , i am not able to remove the leading white spaces. I tried the below , none of them working . I opened the file through vi to check for the special characters if any , but no such characters found.
Your advice will be greatly appreciated.
sed... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a directory with the following file names
01 - abc hyn
02-def
03-ghi.dir
04 - jhu.dir
abc1 kil
def bil
The last two file names abc1 starts with one space and def starts with double space. I want these files in my directory to be renamed as
ABC HYN
DEF
GHI.dir... (6 Replies)
I have a text file with a line of text that contains numbers and text formatted into groups. I need to extract the number that can be either 1,2 or 3 digits long. Then write it to a variable, but i need to remove any leading spaces in the number first.
I can get the numbers out but how to remove... (12 Replies)
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.
07/12/2017 15:55:00 |entinfdev |AD ping Time ms | .474| 1.41| .581|green |flat... (9 Replies)
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)
Hi
I have variable named tablename. The value to tablename variable has leading and trailing white spaces. How to remove the leading and training white spaces and write the value of the tablename without space to a file using shell script. ( for e.g. tablename= yyy )
INPUT
... (10 Replies)
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new
NEW(1) [nmh-1.5] NEW(1)NAME
new - report on folders with new messages
fnext - set current folder to next folder with new messages
fprev - set current folder to previous folder with new messages
unseen - scan new messages in all folders with new messages
SYNOPSIS
new [sequences] [-mode mode] [-folders foldersfile] [-version] [-help]
fnext is equivalent to new -mode fnext
fprev is equivalent to new -mode fprev
unseen is equivalent to new -mode unseen
DESCRIPTION
New in its default mode produces a one-line-per-folder listing of all folders containing messages in the listed sequences or in the
sequences listed in the profile entry "Unseen-Sequence". Each line contains the folder, the number of messages in the desired sequences,
and the message lists from the .mh_sequences file. For example:
foo 11.* 40-50
bar 380. 760-772 824-828
total 391.
The `*' on foo indicates that it is the current folder. The last line shows the total number of messages in the desired sequences.
New crawls the folder hierarchy recursively to find all folders, and prints them in lexicographic order. Override this behavior by provid-
ing foldersfile containing the pre-sorted list of folders new should check, one per line.
In fnext and fprev modes, new instead changes to the next or previous matching folder, respectively.
In unseen mode, new executes scan sequences for each matching folder.
FILES
$HOME/.mh_profile The user profile
PROFILE COMPONENTS
Path: To determine the user's nmh directory
Current-Folder: To find the default current folder
Unseen-Sequence: The name of the unseen message sequence
SEE ALSO scan(1), mh-format(5)HISTORY
Based on Luke Mewburn's new (http://www.mewburn.net/luke/src/new).
MH.6.8 11 June 2012 NEW(1)