[nylug-talk] need sed help

[Dale Harris]

On 2007-04-03 at 09:25, Peter C. Norton <spacey-nylug at lenin.net> elucidated:
> Does this not work for you?
> 
> gnu sed '1s/^[ \t]*//'
> 
> -Peter
> 

sed -r '1s/\s+//'

is nice, too.  I don't you have to escape the plus in this case.

-r is for extended regular expressions, and includes many perl regex
stuff, which is nice.  Of course, this is only later versions GNU sed.


Dale