unsco(USP)

Name

unsco : Remove leading and trailing underscores from fields

Synopsis

Usage   : unsco [-l|-r] [<f1> <f2>...] <file>

Version : Tue Jan  9 09:02:34 JST 2024

Edition : 2

Description

Removes leading and trailing underscores from all fields in the file

passed as the argument (or standard input).

If -l or -r option is specfied, only leading or trailing underscores

are removed respectively.

Example 1

$ cat data

_TOKYO____ 123___

_OSAKA_FU_ _456___

NAGOYA___  ______

$ unsco data

TOKYO 123

OSAKA_FU 456          <-- Underscores within the string are retained

NAGOYA _              <-- If the field is entirely underscors, all

                      but one are deleted

Example 2

$ unsco -l data

TOKYO____ 123___      <-- only leading underscores are removed.

OSAKA_FU_ 456___

NAGOYA___ _

Example 3

$ unsco -r data

_TOKYO 123            <-- only trailing underscores are removed.

_OSAKA_FU _456

NAGOYA _