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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers [Solved] How remove leading whitespace from xml (sed /awk?) Post 302848127 by gacanepa on Wednesday 28th of August 2013 01:58:58 PM
Old 08-28-2013
Try this:
Code:
gacanepa@debian:~$ cat file.xml
 hola
 chau
 me
 voy
gacanepa@debian:~$ awk '{$1=$1}1' file.xml
hola
chau
me
voy
gacanepa@debian:~$

You may want to redirect the output of the last command to an empty file. Hope it helps.
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