Hi all,
Is there an easy way to trim a string in bash?
For example if I wanted to trim a string with JS, I could simply do string.trim();.
However as far as I can see there is no such command in bash:
- trim
The output that I get is:
- trim: command not found
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
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Accepted Answer
Hello,
There are multiple ways to do this depending on what exactly you would like to achieve.
One of the most straight forward ways to trim a string in bash is to use the xargs command. Here’s a quick example:
echo " some text here " | xargs
You would get the following output:
some text here
Note that the spaces between the words are still there, only the initial and trailing spaces are removed.
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
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