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Posix Character Sets difference between [[:blank:]] and [[:space:]]?
On this website it says:
[[:blank:]] space and tab characters
[[:space:]] whitespace characters
What's the difference between space and tab characters and whitespace characters? To me, they ...
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Strip trailing whitespace from files
The answer to removing trailing whitespace with sed has most of the answer, but I want
sed -i 's/[ \t]*$//' $1
to be able to take arbitrary number of file arguments as a shell script on the command ...
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Correct way to match a leading space with sed (all of them)?
How to match a leading space with sed (all of them)? I'm not talking about leading tabs, but rather only on leading spaces.
From a small test I did in Nano this seems to be correct:
sed "s/^ //g"
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