Although not itsoriginal purpose, we can usexargsfor removing undesired spaces. As we can see,it removes not only the leading and trailing whitespaces (the spaces around the word) but also the multiple spaces between the words. However, this tool doesn’t remove the newline character at the...
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rtrim() { local var=$@ var="${var%"${var##*[![:space:]]}"}" # remove trailing whitespace characters echo -n "$var" } trim() { local var=$@ var="${var#"${var%%[![:space:]]*}"}" # remove leading whitespace characters var="${var%"${var##*[![:space:]]}"}" # ...
remove leading/trailing whitespace from each line and replace any commas within quoted fields with a placeholder replace newlines within quoted fields with a placeholder remove the quotes around each field replace the placeholder with the original comma separator prints a message indicating that the data...
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# kitty.bash # Remove all trailing whitespace chars PROMPT_COMMAND="${PROMPT_COMMAND%"${PROMPT_COMMAND##*[![:space:]]}"}" PROMPT_COMMAND="${PROMPT_COMMAND%%;}" # Or use a newline PROMPT_COMMAND+=$'\n'"$pc" Owner kovidgoyal commented Mar 30, 2022 5641668 Contributor page-down com...
The shell treats each character of IFS as a delimiter, and splits the results of the other expansions into words on these characters. If the value of IFS is exactly value other than the default, then sequences of the whitespace characters space and tab are ignored at the beginning and end...
text="${text#"${text%%[![:space:]]*}"}"#remove leading whitespace characters text="${text%"${text##*[![:space:]]}"}"#remove trailing whitespace characters printf-v"$var"'%s'"$text" } #Trims whitespace and removes any leading or trailing semicolons from $2 and ...
It actually just does all of the above for you automatically, and it automatically cleans up all of the temporary branches when it’s done! Here are two example runs to help show you the tool in action: A failure scenario: Here I add a patch with some trailing whitespace, which will ea...
whitespace or another shell metacharacter. ((expression)) The expression is evaluated according to the rules described below under ARITHMETIC EVALUATION. If the value of the expression is non-zero, the return status is 0; otherwise the return status is 1. This is exactly equivalent to let "exp...