hiii i have a file that contains spaces in the begining of a file till the middle the from there the txt would appear. hw can i remove those spaces and bring the text to the begining portion
file1
text starts from here
Pls show your tries to achieve ..
sed 's/ //g' 1.txt >2.txt
sed 's/^ //' filename > outputfile
hii Naresh thankyou for the reply but its not working though.
$ nawk '{$1=$1};1' infile
Anurupa,
tell me clearly, u want to remove spaces on starting of each line or a line having spaces(empty lines in a file)
hii jayan
this is the reply i am getting wen i run ur command
nawk '{$1=$1};1' myfile
-bash: $: command not found
Use awk (or) gawk command instead .. If not getting expected output, reply with what OS ..
i want to remove empty lines in the file
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i am using Mac os tried with awk as well as gawk. but still returning the same error
here is the code to remove empty lines
grep -v ^$ inputfile >outputfile
or
sed 's/^$//g' inputfile > outputfile
or
awk -NF inputfile > outputfile
grep . filename.txt > output.txt
Note : grep followed by dot
grep ( dot )
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perl -lane 'print $_ if (length($_)>0)' input.txt > output.txt
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i blogged some more ways -- two years back.. worth to give a try
1) if it's all spaces :
cat file1 | sed "s/^ *//"
2) no if it's "empty lines" :
tr -s "\n" < file1
HTH
good luck, and success !
alexandre botao
(progsmith, polymath, ideator)