Category "sed"

Removing leading, trailing and multiple spaces within a string

I would like to remove all leading and trailing spaces. As well as replace multiple spaces with a single space within a string, so that all words in a string ar

How to convert YYYYMMDDHHMMSS to a date readable by `date`

I have a set of date/time strings in the YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format that I want to convert to something readable by the date utility. Usually, I can do something li