Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

[Solved] How remove leading whitespace from xml (sed /awk?)

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers [Solved] How remove leading whitespace from xml (sed /awk?)
# 8  
Old 08-29-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by aniquebmx
I just tried also

Code:
sed 's/^[ \t]*//'  file.xml

Close, but not quite: "sed" understands tabs just fine, enter them literally ("<b>" means literal blank, "<t>" means literal tab in the following):

Code:
sed 's/^[<b><t>]*//' /path/to/file

If you have other whitespace too in your file (you can check with od -ax /path/to/file | more) include these in the square brackets.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
This User Gave Thanks to bakunin For This Post:
aniquebmx
# 9  
Old 08-29-2013
Assuming you don't have text separated by spaces or tabs in a single line
Code:
awk '{print $1}' file.xml

This User Gave Thanks to krishmaths For This Post:
aniquebmx
# 10  
Old 08-29-2013
thanks to all for you answers it seems awk is simplest method in my case

or nawk actually as im on ksh

Code:
nawk '{$1=$1}1' path to file.xml

Smilie
# 11  
Old 08-29-2013
I am glad that you found the solution to your question. Please mark this thread as solved for the future reference of other users.
 
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

awk sed to repeat every character on same position from the upper line replacing whitespace

Hello is it possible with awk or sed to replace any white space with the previous line characters in the same position? I am asking this because the file I have doesn't always follow a pattern. For example the file I have is the result of a command to obtain windows ACLs: icacls C:\ /t... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: nakaedu
5 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

[Solved] awk to remove lines

Hi, I have a file with contents. file1: <2013 tttaaa abc123 <2013 gggdddd <2013 sssssss <2013 eeeee I need to remove the lines which do not have the word "tttaaa" can some one help ? (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: giri_luck
7 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

awk to remove leading zeros for a hex number

Is it possible by using awk to remove leading zeros for a hex number? ex: 0000000011179E0A -> 11179E0A Thank you! (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: carloszhang
4 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Sed: Remove whitespace between two strings

I have a 13 number string, some whitespace, and then /mp3. I need to join them. Everyline that I need this for begins with "cd" (without the quotes). What it looks like now: cd media/Audio/WAVE/9781933976334 /mp3 What I want my output to be: cd media/Audio/WAVE/9781933976334/mp3 The 13... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: glev2005
7 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Remove leading zeroes in 2nd field using sed

Hi Forum. I tried searching the forum but couldn't find a solution for my question. I have the following data and would like to have a sed syntax to remove the leading zeroes from the 2nd field only: Before: 2010-01-01|123|1|1000|2000|500|1500|600|700... (18 Replies)
Discussion started by: pchang
18 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

[solved] remove pattern with sed

Hi, i want to remove a certain pattern when i type pwd. pwd will look like this: ..../....../....../Pat_logs/..../....../...../...... the dotted lines are just random directory names, i want it to remove the "Pat_logs/...../....../....../" part so for example: ... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: a27wang
8 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Remove sections of a xml file with sed

I've been trying to remove some lines of a xml file that looks like this: <parent> <child>name1</child> <lots_of_other tags></lots_of_other_tags> </parent> <parent> <child>name2</child> <lots_of_other tags></lots_of_other_tags> </parent> <parent> <child>name3</child> ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: viniciusandre
5 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed over writes my original file (using sed to remove leading spaces)

Hello and thx for reading this I'm using sed to remove only the leading spaces in a file bash-280R# cat foofile some text some text some text some text some text bash-280R# bash-280R# sed 's/^ *//' foofile > foofile.use bash-280R# cat foofile.use some text some text some text... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: laser
6 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed : remove whitespace

I'm trying to remove the whitespace at the end of each line of a text file in ksh. Im using sed s/ $//g' file1.txt > file2.txt It's not working. Any clues? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: b.hamilton
3 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

while read loop preserving leading whitespace

Hi all, I've been trying to get this to work for ages to no avail. I've searched this site and googled but cannot find a satisfactory answer. I've got a while loop, like this while read line do echo "$line" done < file_name Now, my problem is that most of the lines in the file... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: zazzybob
3 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question