[root@localhost ~]# cat example.txt
AB BC CD
EF FG GH
HI JK LM
NO PQ RS
TU VW XY
Z
So we want to look this file as
[root@localhost ~]# cat example.txt
AB BC CD
EF FG GH
HI JK LM
NO PQ RS
TU VW XY
Z
To delete only the whitespaces at the beginning of one single line, use
# sed -i 's/^ *//' example.txt
or
# sed "s/^[ \t]*//" -i example.txt
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