Removing blank lines, trailing and leading spaces - HowFlow

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HowFlow — SED command to remove blank lines, trailing and leading spaces

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lied 6 months ago

This command will delete all blank lines, trailing and leading spaces: (it saves the changes in a new file “cleared.txt”


#sed '/^$/d; s/^[ ]*//g; s/[ ]*$//g' target.txt > cleared.txt

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