The previous sample matches and removes leading space.
It's also possible with trailing space. With portable perl one can even include TABs
Most exact is a "begin anchor" and trailing space becomes optional
A recent GNU-Linux like Ubuntu can use sed -r instead of the perl -pe.
Just seeing the latter sample does not work because the trailing \s* consumes the leading space for a subsequent match.
Because I have no good idea for a fix, here is again one with leading spaces (and also allowing the beginning of the line):
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if I have "abxcdxefx" and want to remove the x's with sed, how can I do this?
Thanks.
WHOOPS:
Just remembered:
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