Remove a space in front of word or words in a file

How to remove space in front of a word in a file?



Just use this command to remove the space in front.

cat filename |cut -d":" -f2 |sort | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//'

Now it will show you the output. If you want the output added inside a file just use this 

 cat filename |cut -d":" -f2 |sort | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' > filename.txt