trim(variable)

[BobRaney]

Hello,

I will be writing some shell scripts that will be used on an RS-6000 system AIX 4.3.
Is there any function that will trim leading and trailing spaces as the TRIM() Function does in Visual Basic?

test=" abcd "
echo $test"with spaces"

this will display
abcd with spaces

Thanks

Raney

 

[pub101]

tr -d " "

This will delete all white space from your output... here's how you would run it:

test=" abcd "
echo $test | tr -d " "

Note: This will delete all white space.. not just from the start and end... Is this what you are looking for? If not, then you can do it a few other ways.