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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have variable named tablename. The value to tablename variable has leading and trailing white spaces. How to remove the leading and training white spaces and write the value of the tablename without space to a file using shell script. ( for e.g. tablename= yyy )
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
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