At 03:58 PM 2/6/2002 -0600, Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC wrote:
>Hello. I am trying to run a simple command to remove all the leading spaces
>from a file and it just isn't working. No errors, just no results - still a
>lot of leading spaces on each line.
>
>%perl -pi.bak -e 's/^\s+//' bomb1.txt
>
>any ideas?

Try using double-quotes. (On a WinNT and ME, the above didn't seem to work 
for me either. It did when I used ".

>
>tim
>


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