Remove Leading Whitespace Using Sed
February14
Sometimes a data file contains whitespace before the actual data. The following command will remove that whitespace.
1 | cat original_file.txt | sed -e 's,^ *,,' > new_file.txt |
Sometimes a data file contains whitespace before the actual data. The following command will remove that whitespace.
1 | cat original_file.txt | sed -e 's,^ *,,' > new_file.txt |
The following command will substitute all tabs & spaces in a file with just spaces. Very usefull if you want to prepare a file as csv or inject the data contained in a database table.
1 | sed -r 's/[[:blank:]]/ /g' original_file > new_file |