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Old 05-04-2007
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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
It just refuses to work on a file, regardless of whether it is stdin or not. That does not make sense.
Are you sure the file has only space and tab? Try
Code:
od -c file

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Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
echo $record | sed 's/^[ ]*//
Since $record is not in double quotes ("$record"), shell is parsing using white space and sed is not what is stripping the spaces.

Last edited by kahuna; 05-05-2007 at 08:48 AM.. Reason: Additional comment
# 9  
Old 05-04-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
HPUX 11.23 does not have this problem - I just checked - I was using 11.0.
I am assuming it is a bug.
You might try loading the latest 11.0 sed patch and libc patch to see if that fixes it.
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