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[M.W. Chang]

root at server: init.d> ps ax | grep bttrack | grep -v grep
  6016 ?        S     29:50 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/bttrack.py --p

There is a leading a space char in the line. I couldn't use `cut -f 1 -d 
" "` on the line. What's the neatest command to remove all leading 
spaces (1..n) in a line of text?

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