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| <<Anchor(faq67)>> == How can I trim leading/trailing white space from one of my variables? == There are a few ways to do this. Some involve special tricks that only work with whitespace. Others are more general, and can be used to strip leading zeroes, etc. Here's one that only works for whitespace. It relies on the fact that `read` strips all leading and trailing whitespace when `IFS` isn't set: {{{ # POSIX, but fails if the variable contains newlines read -r var << EOF $var EOF }}} Bash can do something similar with a "here string": {{{ # Bash read -rd '' x <<< "$x" }}} Using an empty string as a delimiter means the read consumes the whole string, as NUL is used. (Remember: BASH only does C-string variables.) This is entirely safe for any text, including newlines. Here's a solution using [[glob|extglob]] together with [[BashFAQ/073|parameter expansion]]: {{{ # Bash shopt -s extglob x=${x##+([[:space:]])} x=${x%%+([[:space:]])} shopt -u extglob }}} This solution isn't restricted to whitespace like the first few were. You can remove leading zeroes as well: {{{ # Bash shopt -s extglob x=${x##+(0)} }}} This also works in KornShell, without needing the explicit `extglob` setting: {{{ # ksh x=${x##+([[:space:]])} x=${x%%+([[:space:]])} }}} If you need to remove leading zeroes in a POSIX shell, you can use a loop: {{{ # POSIX while true; do case "$var" in 0*) var=${var#0};; *) break;; esac done }}} Or this trick: {{{ # POSIX zeroes=${var%%[!0]*} var=${var#$zeroes} }}} There are many, many other ways to do this, using sed for instance: {{{ # POSIX, suppress the trailing and leading whitespace on every line x=$(echo "$x" | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//') }}} Solutions based on external programs like sed are well suited to trimming large files, rather than shell variables. |
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