run from command line

[Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC]

Hello. I am trying to run a simple command to remove all the leading spaces
from a file and it just isn't working. No errors, just no results - still a
lot of leading spaces on each line.
 
%perl -pi.bak -e 's/^\s+//' bomb1.txt
 
any ideas?
 
tim