我有一个shell脚本与这段代码:

var=`hg st -R "$path"`
if [ -n "$var" ]; then
    echo $var
fi

但是条件代码总是执行,因为hg st总是打印至少一个换行符。

是否有一个简单的方法从$var中剥离空白(如PHP中的trim())?

or

有没有处理这个问题的标准方法?

我可以使用sed或AWK,但我认为有一个更优雅的解决方案来解决这个问题。


当前回答

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。

其他回答

这没有不必要的通配符问题,而且,内部空白是未修改的(假设$IFS被设置为默认值,即' \t\n')。

它一直读取到第一个换行符(但不包括换行符)或字符串的结尾,以先到者为准,并删除任何前导和尾随空格以及\t字符的混合。如果你想保留多行(同时去掉开头和结尾换行符),请使用read -r -d " var << eof;但是请注意,如果您的输入恰好包含\neof,它将在之前被切断。(其他形式的空白,即\r、\f和\v,即使您将它们添加到$IFS,也不会被剥离。)

read -r var << eof
$var
eof

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."

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<

为了删除字符串开头和结尾的所有空格(包括行末字符):

echo $variable | xargs echo -n

这也将删除重复的空格:

echo "  this string has a lot       of spaces " | xargs echo -n

Produces: 'this string has a lot of spaces'

这就是我所做的,结果完美而简单:

the_string="        test"
the_string=`echo $the_string`
echo "$the_string"

输出:

test