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Re: Stripping spaces from a shell variable, portably

On Oct 1, 11:27am, DervishD wrote:
}
}     I need to strip leading and trailing spaces from the contents of
} a shell variable, and I need to do it [...] using SuSv3
} constructs, not Zsh extensions.

What about:

	tmp="${variable##*[^ ]}"
	variable="${variable%${tmp}}"
	tmp="${variable%%[^ ]*}"
	variable="${variable#${tmp}}"
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