skip_spaces(9)

💖 NAME 💖

Okay so this is skip_spaces(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and its whole thing is literally in the name: skip_spaces removes leading whitespace from @str. That’s the gig. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

char * skip_spaces (const char *str );

Bestie, that’s the exact signature — copy it character for character, she’s sensitive. 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• str — the string to be stripped. This is the string getting its leading whitespace removed, no cap. 🫶

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So you pass in str, and skip_spaces returns a pointer to the first non-whitespace character in str. That’s the whole flex. 💖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./tools/lib/string.c
• memdup(9)
• strtobool(9)
• strlcpy(9)
• strim(9)
• strreplace(9)
• memchr_inv(9)

Go say hi to the whole squad. 👑

xoxo, source/version ./tools/lib, dated October 2026 🎀💖