How Do I Remove Spaces in Linux?
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Use sed ‘s/^ *//g’, to remove the leading white spaces. There is another way to remove whitespaces using `sed` command. The following commands removed the spaces from the variable, $Var by using `sed` command and [[:space:]]. $ echo “$Var are very popular now.”

How do I remove spaces from a file in Linux?

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  1. tr -d ‘ ‘ < input.txt > no-spaces.txt.
  2. tr -d ‘[:blank:]’ < input.txt > no-spaces.txt.
  3. tr -d ‘[:space:]’ < input.txt > no-spaces.txt.

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How do I remove blank spaces in Unix?

Simple solution is by using grep (GNU or BSD) command as below.

  1. Remove blank lines (not including lines with spaces). grep . file.txt.
  2. Remove completely blank lines (including lines with spaces). grep “S” file.txt.
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