[geeks] Quick sed question

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, June 20, 2002 at 15:32:41 (-0400), Joshua D Boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: [geeks] Quick sed question
>
> At least, I think sed is the best method.
> 
> Anyway, I have a file has 3 decimal numbers per line.  After the first
> number, there is a space between numbers.  Before the first number
> there is either no white space, or some amount of tabs and or spaces.
> I just want to	quickly strip the extra white space from the front of
> each line.

If I understand correctly (real examples would help! :-) either awk or
sed will do just fine, but awk will allow you to canonicalize all the
field separators too:

	# there's a space and a tab in the charset part of this expression:
	sed -e 's/^[ 	]*//'

	awk '{printf("%d %d %d\n", $1, $2, $3)}'

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