Re: use of "build.sh -B BUILDID".... with patch and more questions

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At Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:59:13 +0100 (CET), Jarle Greipsland <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: Re: use of "build.sh -B BUILDID".... with patch and more questions
>
> As for the original problem of removing blanks (or whitespace), I
> generally prefer not to sprinkle my code with too much
> cleverness.  Instead, I stash it away in one or more functions,
> and then apply them as needed.  Clarity is worth a few extra
> function calls.  The functions below (beware! not rigorously
> tested) enable me to do both:
>
>   trim_ws var "  lost in space  "
> and
>   var="  lost in space  "
>   trim_ws var

nice!

I already noted the lack of character classes in the pdksh derivatives,
but also note for ancient sh, e.g. Heirloom Sh, one must resort to using
expr instead of the prefix/suffix pattern expansions.

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