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Strip leading and trailing spaces only in a shell variable with embedded spaces
Post 65590 by jerardfjay on Monday 7th of March 2005 10:52:17 AM
03-07-2005
Thank you for the sed version.
the
echo $var1 | sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//' |& read -p var2
strips the leading and trailing spaces from the variable var1 and sets the output to the new variable var2.
Thank you.
the
echo $var1 | sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//' |& read -p var2
strips the leading and trailing spaces from the variable var1 and sets the output to the new variable var2.
Thank you.
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