Bash – Trim/Remove White Space

Posted on By David Kittell 
sed 's/^[ \t]*//'

sed 's/[ \t]*$//'

sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'
Originally Posted on May 4, 2017
Last Updated on August 25, 2019
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