[ACCEPTED]-Delete whitespace in each begin of line of file, using bash-removing-whitespace
sed -i 's/ //g' your_file will do it, modifying the file inplace.
To 5 delete only the whitespaces at the beginning 4 of one single line, use sed -i 's/^ *//' your_file
In the first expression, we 3 replace all spaces with nothing.
In the 2 second one, we replace at the beginning 1 using the ^ keyword
tr(delete all whitespaces):
$ tr -d ' ' <input.txt >output.txt
$ mv output.txt input.txt
sed(delete leading whitespaces)
$ sed -i 's/^ *//' input.txt
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use can use perl -i for in place replacement.
perl -p -e 's/^ *//' file
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To delete the white spaces before start 4 of the line if the pattern matches. Use 3 the following command. For example your 2 foo.in has pattern like this
This is a test
Lolll
blaahhh
This is a testtt
After issuing 1 following command
sed -e '/This/s/ *//' < foo.in > foo.out
The foo.out will be
This is a test
Lolll
blaahhh
This is a testtt
"Whitespace" can include both spaces AND tabs. The solutions 8 presented to date will only match and operate 7 successfully on spaces; they will fail if the 6 whitespace takes the form of a tab.
The below 5 has been tested on the OP's specimen data 4 set with both spaces AND tabs, matching 3 successfully & operating on both:
sed 's/^[[:blank:]]*//g' yourFile
After 2 testing, supply the -i switch to sed to make 1 the changes persistent-
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