remove trailing spaces from records

[mwesticle]

If I have a file where all of the records have trailing spaces... like this (without the single quotes):

'123 Main '
'456 Central Ave '
'789 Oak Street '

How do I take this file, and strip the trailing spaces, so my output looks like this (without the single quotes):

'123 Main'
'456 Central Ave'
'789 Oak Street'

Any takers?

 

[PHV]

Try something like this:
sed -e 's! *$!!' /path/to/input >output

Hope This Help, PH.
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[olded]

Hi:

You can also use a while loop:

while read line
do
echo $line
done < olddata > newdata

This may not work with all unix variants, but it works with my Solaris 7 ksh.

Regards,

Ed

 

[PHV]

olded, this will also get rid of leading spaces and compress all sequence of consecutive spaces to one.