delete blank space in begining of line

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All,

below is my data file
file.txt

$$0     ServerA  LAN1    AAA     IT01    04/30/2008  09:16:26
$$0     ServerB  LAN1    AAA     IT02    04/30/2008  09:16:26

here $ is a blank space
how to delete first 2 blank spaces in a file.

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sed -e 's/^  //' file.txt>file.new
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using Perl:

perl -pi -e 's/^\s+//' filename
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sed -e 's/^  //g' filename > newfile

Thanks

5

The "-e" and the "g" is redundant, he only wants to delete the first 2 spaces.
The "-e" is for combining multiple commands and the "g" is for global (more) substitutes on a line, this is sufficient:

sed 's/^  //' filename > newfile

Regards