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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How do I remove leading spaces in UNIX when count of space character is not fixed? Example below- Post 302983860 by RavinderSingh13 on Tuesday 18th of October 2016 03:11:37 AM
Old 10-18-2016
Hello Tanu,

Without sample Input_file or without letting us know what you are trying to achieve, we all could guess only. So as a guess could you please try following and let us know how it goes then(seems you are using perl and didn't test it).
Code:
 my @pendJobs = `showStreamsGLIS$reg.$env.ksh  | awk '/OH|RU|OI/{sub(/^ +/,X,$0);print}'`;

Thanks,
R. Singh
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  .ds	  Double space the output. Same as .ls 2.
  .ef t   Even page footer title is set to t.
  .eh t   Even page header title is set to t.
  .fi	  Begin filling output lines as full as possible.
  .fo t   Footer titles (even and odd) are set to t.
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  .li n   Literal text on next n lines.  Copy to output unmodified.
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  .m2 n   Insert n (2) blank lines between header and start of text.
  .m3 n   Insert n (1) blank lines between end of text and footer.
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  .pa +n  Page adjust by n (1).  Same as .bp
  .pl +n  Paper length is n (66) lines.
  .po +n  Page offset.	Each line is started with n (0) spaces.
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