Help? How to remove starting white-space

[g2345c]

#!/bin/sh
IP_ADDRESS=`/sbin/ifconfig | grep inet`
ex: the $IP_ADDRESS now is: " inet Ip: Mask:"

How do I remove the all the white-space at the begining of $IP_ADDRESS if any line before move on to the next statement? so that $IP_ADDRESS will become "inet Ip: Mask:"


thanks

 

[vgersh99]

/sbin/ifconfig -a | grep inet | sed "s/^$(/bin/echo '\t')//g"

vlad
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| #include<disclaimer.h> |
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[PHV]

Have you tried this ?
t=`echo "\t\c"`
IP_ADDRESS=`/sbin/ifconfig | sed -n "/inet/s![^ $t]*!!p"`

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[vgersh99]

PHV,
I think you meant:

IP_ADDRESS=`/sbin/ifconfig | sed -n "/inet/s!^[ $t]*!!p"`

vlad
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| #include<disclaimer.h> |
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[PHV]

Hi vlad. Well spotted :~/

 

[g2345c]

Thank you all. It works great.