[lug] Stripping whitespace in a shell script

[Chip Atkinson]

You could use sed.  For example,
sed -e "s/  *$//"
This works in the test that I just ran.

Chip

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Riggs, Rob wrote:

> I'm looking for an effecient way to strip whitespace from the trailing end
> of a line of text in a shell script.
>
> I was using "awk '{print $1}'", but it breaks down when there is embedded
> whitespace in the text, spitting out only the portion prior to the first
> embedded whitespace. While whitespace should not be embedded, it occurs
> frequently enough that I need to deal with it.
>
> Any suggestions on how to do it in Bash script?
>
> -Rob
>
>
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