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Remove blanks from a text file

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Name: ros.ang
Date: November 22, 2004 at 05:34:50 Pacific
Subject: Remove blanks from a text file
OS: Digital Unix 4.0.F
CPU/Ram: Alpha / 1 Gb

Comment:

I need to remove trailing blanks from a text file . Each line is long 1024 characters and only the first part (about 100 char) is meaningful and I have some problems viewing the
informations with 'vi'.
Thanks to anyone for help

Angelo Rosinelli

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Response Number 1

Name: vicchai
Date: November 22, 2004 at 06:05:57 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Try this:
cat text.txt | cut -c 1-100

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Response Number 2

Name: Jim Boothe
Date: November 22, 2004 at 07:33:55 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

And to strip just the trailing blanks, one way is:
pr -t text.txt < text.new

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Response Number 3

Name: vvenkatkalpana
Date: November 23, 2004 at 21:16:37 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

hi there u could use this sed command to remove trailing blank spaces!
sed 's/[ \t]*$//' filename

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