Remove Leading and Trailing Whitespace using gsub in AWK

Posted on May 19, 2022 by dsg_admin 
# echo "  this  test   "|awk '{gsub(/^[[:space:]]+|[[:space:]]+$/,"",$0); print}'
this  test
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