remove spaces

[RicardoPereira]

How do i remove the blank spaces from the begining of a text file?

Example:

test

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how do i remove the blank spaces?

 

[PHV]

One way:
awk '{x=$0;sub(/^[ \t]+/,"",x);print x}' /path/to/input > output
You may also consider sed.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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