On Fri, 12 May 2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
The first sed expression is missing "//". Correcting that:
sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' test.txt
sed: lstat: No such file or directory
Yeah, I noticed the missing // in the first regexp, but only
after I had posted the message. You're right, of course :)
It seems odd that the fixed expression doesn't work though.
Which version of FreeBSD is this and what sed are you running?
$ uname -v
FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Wed Mar 22 19:18:33 MST 2006
$ type sed
That's a sh-ism (normally I use csh):
sed is /usr/bin/sed
Interestingly, the problem is different on 6.1 (csh or sh):
sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' test.txt
sed: -e: No such file or directory
...which is solved by giving a blank argument for -i:
sed -i'' -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' test.txt
Gah.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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