[Gllug] Stripping whitespace in bash script

[Dylan]

On Saturday 12 August 2006 00:41, Alex Sayle wrote:
> main example, which uses sed to remove all (zero or more) spaces
> at the end of the line and the uses the example above to put
> brackets around the string.
>
> $echo "word   " | sed -e 's/ *$//g' | sed -e 's/\(.*\)/[\1]/'
> [word]
>
> details in man pages sed(1), and there's always funny looking awk(1)
> and perl ( perldoc -f chomp ) that do the job just fine.

That's got it, thanks!
Dylan
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