Unix: command to strip white space characters

Question

When I do the following unix command:

pwd | pbcopy

is there something I can add to the command so that the string copied to my clipboard does not have any trailing whitespace?

(fyi: The reason I ask is because when I pipe the output to pbcopy, it copies a newline character at the end, which for my purposes, I don't want)

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '11 at 04:31

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You can achieve that effect with:

echo -n `pwd` | pbcopy

answered Mar 30 '11 at 04:31

yan

That didn't work. It copied the string 'pwd' instead of the output of pwd. – well actually Mar 30 '11 at 04:43
Note these are backticks, not single quotes. – yan Mar 30 '11 at 04:48
Oh I'm sorry, I thought they were single quotes. Perfect, that worked great. Thanks! – well actually Mar 30 '11 at 04:55

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