On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC wrote:
> Hello. I am trying to run a simple command to remove all the leading spaces
> from a file and it just isn't working. No errors, just no results - still a
> lot of leading spaces on each line.
>
> %perl -pi.bak -e 's/^\s+//' bomb1.txt
Not sure what the problem is. Here's what happened when I just ran it:
bmccoy:~$ cat bomb1.txt
hello
hello
hello
bmccoy:~$ perl -pi.bak -e 's/^\s+//' bomb1.txt
bmccoy:~$ cat bomb1.txt
hello
hello
hello
-- Brett
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