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Eduardo Issao Ito
Eduardo Issao Ito

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Trim a string in shell script

Nice trick just using echo command:

$ str="  a string  "
$ echo "[$str]"
[  a string  ]

$ new=$(echo $str)
$ echo "[$new]"
[a string]

To trim an entire file:

sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//' < input_file

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