strip leading white space

[ng1]

I have a file that contains 1 line. It has a number in it.



ex.
706,423.97



It has a variable amount of leading white space. What is a simple way to get rid of the leading white space? I have searched for a nice easy way but have not found it yet.

 

[ng1]

Never mind.

I found an easy way to do it with sed.

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

 

[p5wizard]

Some other solutions:

[tt]echo $(</path/to/your/file)
tr -d '[:blank:]' </path/to/your/file[/tt]


HTH,

p5wizard