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removing spaces in the file starting at certain line number

Pando — Tue, 09 May 2006 19:43:48 GMT

dear gurus,

I have a file that needs to be stripped of spaces beginning at a certain line. For example, i need to strip only the white spaces beginning at line 10. I have found a perl script in this forum but it strips of the white spaces of the whole file. What i need is to strip white spaces beginning only at a certain line of my file.
Maximum points to all correct replies.
Thanks!

Re: removing spaces in the file starting at certain line number

Rajeev Shukla — Tue, 09 May 2006 19:49:56 GMT

use
sed '10s/ //g' file > outputfile

Cheers
Rajeev

Re: removing spaces in the file starting at certain line number

Peter Godron — Wed, 10 May 2006 02:11:43 GMT

Fernando,
I believe Rajeev's solution should have been:
sed '10,$s/ //g' file > outputfile

The first part of the sed command in the original post would only replace spaces in line 10, whereas 10,$ means lines 10 to the end of the file.

Re: removing spaces in the file starting at certain line number

Pando — Sat, 13 May 2006 20:23:14 GMT

Thanks!