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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to remove leading and trailing spaces for variable in shell script? Post 303024921 by jim mcnamara on Friday 19th of October 2018 10:45:36 AM
Old 10-19-2018
Still not clear to me. /bin/sh should be a POSIX conforming modern shell. Except I don't believe that is likely what you mean. Oh well.

This example is way less efficient than Don's suggestion, but works on modern UNIX systems and Linux AFAIK. In that sense it is pretty much safe.

Remove leading and trailing spaces at the same time:

Code:
f=" yyyy  "
# show variable using : to start and : to end
echo ":$f:"
: yyyy  :
# remove blanks
f=`echo "$f" | xargs`
# show variable using : to start and : to end
echo ":$f:"
:yyyy:

 

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concat(1T)						       Tcl Built-In Commands							concat(1T)

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NAME
concat - Join lists together SYNOPSIS
concat ?arg arg ...? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
This command joins each of its arguments together with spaces after trimming leading and trailing white-space from each of them. If all the arguments are lists, this has the same effect as concatenating them into a single list. It permits any number of arguments; if no args are supplied, the result is an empty string. EXAMPLES
Although concat will concatenate lists (so the command: concat a b {c d e} {f {g h}} will return "a b c d e f {g h}" as its result), it will also concatenate things that are not lists, and hence the command: concat " a b {c " d " e} f" will return "a b {c d e} f" as its result. Note that the concatenation does not remove spaces from the middle of its arguments, so the command: concat "a b c" { d e f } will return "a b c d e f" (i.e. with three spaces between the a, the b and the c). SEE ALSO
append(1T), eval(1T) KEYWORDS
concatenate, join, lists ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWTcl | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org. Tcl 8.3 concat(1T)
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