!/bin/bash

uniq -c | sed 's/^[ \t]*//'

uniq -c | cut -c 7-

don't echo the leading spaces

while read line; do echo $line >> file.txt done cat file.txt | uniq -c | sed -E 's/^(.{0,7})[ ]+/\1 /;s/ {2,}//'

this worked for me: uniq -c | cut -c7-

uniq -c|sed -e 's/ //g' worked for me