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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove leading and trailing spaces from a file Post 303000476 by wbport on Wednesday 12th of July 2017 05:25:05 PM
Old 07-12-2017
Try using sed. First create a file like demo.sed containing
Code:
s/ *\| */|/g

and run it with
Code:
sed -f demo.sed myFileToConvert >convertedFile

Of course "demo" can be replaced with something meaningful in your shop.

What this does is delete any spaces on either side of the "|" character, as many times as needed for each line.

HTH
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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