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Simplest way of stripping leading/trailing whitespace from file or program output
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What is the simplest shell idiom for stripping leading and trailing whitespace from a file or program output? Ideally I am looking for the equivalent of trim or strip methods in some languages.
The ideal solution should
- skip empty lines at the beginning and end of the file/stream
- provide an option to also strip leading and trailing whitespace from all non-empty lines
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