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Korn Shell- Trim spaces [message #148361] Wed, 23 November 2005 15:57 Go to next message
mchittib
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Registered: September 2005
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Can someone tell me How to trim spaces leading and trailing for a variable.

Thanks In advance
Re: Korn Shell- Trim spaces [message #148537 is a reply to message #148361] Thu, 24 November 2005 18:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
rleishman
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Heres one way

a=`echo $a | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ *$//'`


There is a more elegant way using typeset -L if the variable is a fixed length.
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Re: Korn Shell- Trim spaces [message #148861 is a reply to message #148537] Mon, 28 November 2005 14:30 Go to previous message
mchittib
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Thanks a lot.
That works.
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