How Do You Trim a String in Unix?

`sed` command is another option to remove leading and trailing space or character from the string data. The following commands will remove the spaces from the variable, $myVar using `sed` command. Use sed ‘s/^ *//g’, to remove the leading white spaces. There is another way to remove whitespaces using `sed` command.

How trim a string in Linux?

Using the cut Command

You can also use the -d and -f flags to extract a string by specifying characters to split on. The -d flag lets you specify the delimiter to split on while -f lets you choose which substring of the split to choose.

How do you cut a string after a specific character in Unix?

7 Answers

1. what if the original string had more than one : character? Like [email protected]:administrators:/home/some/directory/file . …
2. @SopalajodeArrierez, The given command will just work. See (because the .* will match as much as possible: greedy) – falsetru Feb 21 ’15 at 7:05.

23 авг. 2013 г.