Strip Whitespace From Bash Variable
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Join For FreeStrip (AKA "trim") the whitespace from the beginning and end of a variable in Bash.
# Strip the whitespace from the beginning and end.
STRING_VAR=`expr "$STRING_VAR" : '[[:space:]]*\(.*\)[[:space:]]*$'`
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From Peter Knowles's "booklistgen.sh" script for converting files to Sony Librie format.
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Stripes (framework)
Bash (Unix shell)
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