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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting re: removing trailing space from lines Post 37404 by oombera on Wednesday 18th of June 2003 10:26:56 AM
Old 06-18-2003
re: removing trailing space from lines
Quote:
Originally posted by sameerbo
Hi,

How can we remove the all trailing spaces of a line from a file.


TiA
Sameer.
Not sure why this thread was closed without any explanation, but you can do what you're asking with sed 's/[[:blank:]]*$//g' < sourceFile > destFile
 

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