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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers removing spaces from variables? Post 74596 by yongho on Friday 10th of June 2005 03:49:05 PM
Old 06-10-2005
removing white space (padding) from variables?

I stored results like this

VAR=`wc -l < ls.txt`

But the value of the wc gave me a padded number.
How do I strip the padding from $VAR?

Do you think I could use SED?
Except instead of a file input, have a variable redirection input?

Last edited by yongho; 06-10-2005 at 04:57 PM..
 

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$VAR and ${VAR} are replaced with the quoted value of the environment variable named VAR. Use the second form when VAR contains anything other than alpha-numeric or underscore (_) characters. Do not include quotes in the query. The variables account and domain contain the account and domain names given by the CVM client. $$ is replaced with a single dollar sign. QUERY RESULTS
The query must produce the following fields exactly in order. All required fields must not be null or empty. 1. Password, encrypted with crypt(3) (required) 2. Actual account name (required) 3. User ID (integer) (required) 4. Group ID (integer) (required) 5. Directory (required) 6. Real name (optional) 7. Login shell (optional) 8. Group name (optional) 9. Domain name (optional) 10. System account name (optional) 11. System account directory (optional) 12. Mailbox path (optional) DEFAULT QUERY
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