[nylug-talk] need sed help

[Steven Lembark]

Peter C. Norton wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:22:08PM -0400, Steven Lembark wrote:
>> Why not use perl:
>>
>>   perl -p -e 's/^\s+//' in.txt > out.txt;
>
> That's going to work on more than just the first line. Eg. it is wrong.

Oops, forgot to slurp the thing:

  perl -p -e 'BEGIN{ undef $/ } s/^\s+//' in.txt > out.txt;


e.g.,

$ echo -e "   foo\n   bar\n   bletch\n" |
perl -p -e 'BEGIN{ undef $/ } s/^\s+//' ;

foo
   bar
   bletch




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