这是我见过的最简单的方法。它只使用Bash，只有几行，regexp很简单，它匹配所有形式的空白:

if [[ "$test" =~ ^[[:space:]]*([^[:space:]].*[^[:space:]])[[:space:]]*$ ]]
then 
    test=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
fi

下面是一个用于测试的示例脚本:

test=$(echo -e "\n \t Spaces and tabs and newlines be gone! \t  \n ")

echo "Let's see if this works:"
echo
echo "----------"
echo -e "Testing:${test} :Tested"  # Ugh!
echo "----------"
echo
echo "Ugh!  Let's fix that..."

if [[ "$test" =~ ^[[:space:]]*([^[:space:]].*[^[:space:]])[[:space:]]*$ ]]
then 
    test=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
fi

echo
echo "----------"
echo -e "Testing:${test}:Tested"  # "Testing:Spaces and tabs and newlines be gone!"
echo "----------"
echo
echo "Ah, much better."

Use:

trim() {
    local orig="$1"
    local trmd=""
    while true;
    do
        trmd="${orig#[[:space:]]}"
        trmd="${trmd%[[:space:]]}"
        test "$trmd" = "$orig" && break
        orig="$trmd"
    done
    printf -- '%s\n' "$trmd"
}

它适用于各种空格，包括换行符， 不需要修改shop。 它保留内部空白，包括换行符。

单元测试(用于手动检查):

#!/bin/bash

. trim.sh

enum() {
    echo "   a b c"
    echo "a b c   "
    echo "  a b c "
    echo " a b c  "
    echo " a  b c  "
    echo " a  b  c  "
    echo " a      b  c  "
    echo "     a      b  c  "
    echo "     a  b  c  "
    echo " a  b  c      "
    echo " a  b  c      "
    echo " a N b  c  "
    echo "N a N b  c  "
    echo " Na  b  c  "
    echo " a  b  c N "
    echo " a  b  c  N"
}

xcheck() {
    local testln result
    while IFS='' read testln;
    do
        testln=$(tr N '\n' <<<"$testln")
        echo ": ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :" >&2
        result="$(trim "$testln")"
        echo "testln='$testln'" >&2
        echo "result='$result'" >&2
    done
}

enum | xcheck

使用Bash的扩展模式匹配功能(shopt -s extglob)，你可以这样使用:

修剪{# # * ()}

删除任意数量的前导空格。

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。

var="  a b  "
echo "$(set -f; echo $var)"

>a b

创建一个数组而不是变量，这将修剪所有的空格，制表符和换行符:

arr=( $(hg st -R "$path") )
if [[ -n "${arr[@]}" ]]; then
    printf -- '%s\n' "${arr[@]}"
fi