"trim"函数删除所有水平空白:

ltrim () {
    if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then cat; else printf -- '%s\n' "$@"; fi | perl -pe 's/^\h+//g'
    return $?
}

rtrim () {
    if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then cat; else printf -- '%s\n' "$@"; fi | perl -pe 's/\h+$//g'
    return $?
}

trim () {
    ltrim "$@" | rtrim
    return $?
}

我总是用sed来做

  var=`hg st -R "$path" | sed -e 's/  *$//'`

如果有更优雅的解决方案，我希望有人能发布出来。

赋值函数忽略前导和后面的空格，因此可以用于修剪:

$ var=`echo '   hello'`; echo $var
hello

答案有很多，但我仍然认为我刚刚写的剧本值得一提，因为:

it was successfully tested in the shells bash/dash/busybox shell it is extremely small it doesn't depend on external commands and doesn't need to fork (->fast and low resource usage) it works as expected: it strips all spaces and tabs from beginning and end, but not more important: it doesn't remove anything from the middle of the string (many other answers do), even newlines will remain special: the "$*" joins multiple arguments using one space. if you want to trim & output only the first argument, use "$1" instead if doesn't have any problems with matching file name patterns etc

脚本:

trim() {
  local s2 s="$*"
  until s2="${s#[[:space:]]}"; [ "$s2" = "$s" ]; do s="$s2"; done
  until s2="${s%[[:space:]]}"; [ "$s2" = "$s" ]; do s="$s2"; done
  echo "$s"
}

用法:

mystring="   here     is
    something    "
mystring=$(trim "$mystring")
echo ">$mystring<"

输出:

>here     is
    something<

Bash有一个称为参数展开的特性，它允许基于所谓的模式替换字符串(模式类似于正则表达式，但有基本的区别和限制)。 [flussence的原文:Bash有正则表达式，但它们隐藏得很好:]

下面演示如何从变量值中删除所有空白(甚至来自内部)。

$ var='abc def'
$ echo "$var"
abc def
# Note: flussence's original expression was "${var/ /}", which only replaced the *first* space char., wherever it appeared.
$ echo -n "${var//[[:space:]]/}"
abcdef

数组赋值在内部字段分隔符(默认为空格/制表符/换行符)上展开参数拆分。

words=($var)
var="${words[@]}"