On 08/23/2006 04:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,

I found the following sed one-liner trick that strips out the spaces that I run
as follows:

sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//' /tmp/file.txt > /tmp/filea.txt
[...]

It's pretty much exactly the same except for the "-pe":

perl -pe 's/^[ \t]*//; s/[ \t]*$//' /tmp/file.txt > /tmp/filea.txt



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