how to remove all spaces from a string bash code example
Example 1: bash strip preceeding white space
# Basic syntax:
sed 's/^ *//g'
# Example usage:
echo ' text' # Printing without sed command
--> text
echo ' text' | sed 's/^ *//g' # Pipe to sed command
--> text
Example 2: how to remove every space in a string in bash
#!/bin/bash
#Make our variable
var="foo bar"
#Print it without the spaces
echo ${var//[[:blank:]]/}
#Output will be foobar