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# 1  
Old 04-02-2012
Bug remove space of each line
Hi Guys,

I want remove starting space of each line ...

My Input:

Code:
A B C D E
 C V F G H 
 F R T Y U
D F G H J
L  O I U Y G P O 
K O P L O 
 L O I P
 P O P
 P P P P

My Output:

Code:
A B C D E
C V F G H 
F R T Y U
D F G H J
L  O I U Y G P O 
K O P L O 
L O I P
P O P
P P P P

Thanks
# 2  
Old 04-02-2012
Code:
sed 's/^[ \t]*\(.*\)/\1/' infile

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asavaliya
# 3  
Old 04-03-2012
Code:
sed 's/^ //' file

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radoulov
# 4  
Old 04-03-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by SaCai
Code:
sed 's/^ //' file

... of course Smilie
# 5  
Old 04-03-2012
Try like...
Code:
sed -e "s/^ \{1,\}//" test1.txt>test2.txt

# 6  
Old 04-03-2012
or
Code:
column -t infile

# 7  
Old 04-03-2012
Hi try this one Smilie
Code:
cat input_file|sed 's/^\s*//g' >output_file

cheers,
Senthil
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