USS tool sed not recognize regular expression



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USS tool sed not recognize regular expression

Postby richiewu » Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:08 pm

I tried use sed in USS:

sed -Ee 's/^ *//g' infile

This not work, the leading space still in the output, dose any one used this?

Thank you in advance.
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Re: USS tool sed not recognize regular expression

Postby BillyBoyo » Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:58 pm

How about googling for something like "reuglar expression regex to remove leading space"?
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Re: USS tool sed not recognize regular expression

Postby richiewu » Fri Sep 06, 2013 12:30 pm

^ * means leading space in POSIX regular expression
^ is means start of line * means occurs any time
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