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thepowerofone 11-28-2011 08:56 AM
Left justify att text in my 11 text files at once
 
How do I left justify the text in my 11 .text files at once without doing them individually. Would I need to use sed to do this as I am not to sure of sed.

Many thanks.

MTK358 11-28-2011 11:19 AM
I don't know what you mean by "left justify the text in a text file", but assuming that there are spaces to the left of each line and you want them gone, try this:

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


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