[nylug-talk] need sed help

[Peter C. Norton]

Does this not work for you?

gnu sed '1s/^[ \t]*//'

-Peter

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 12:09:42PM -0400, jh wrote:
> I'm trying to use sed to delete all the whitespace, up to the first 
> non-white character, on the first line of a file, and I can't make it 
> work. Can someone show me what will work?
> 
> Tried this:
> 
> sed -e 's/[\t]//1' problem.txt > out.txt
> sed -e 's/[\020]*//1' problem.txt > out.txt
> sed -e 's/[:space:]*//1' problem.txt > out.txt
> 
> No dice. This is on an MS-DOS formatted text file...
> 
> Thanks~
> 
> jh
> 
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