Re: Spool & Trailing Blanks

In <1993Jan25.133239.1_at_ntc02.tele.nokia.fi> kuismin_at_ntc02.tele.nokia.fi writes:

> This is what I get now:
 

> line1 line1 <LF>
> line2 line2 line2 line2 <LF>
> line3 line3 line3 <LF>
 

> This is what I want to have:
 

> line1 line1<CR><LF>
> line2 line2 line2 line2<CR><LF>
> line3 line3 line3<CR><LF>

It's easy to do with UNIX:

sed -e "s/ *$//" file1 > file2

will replace all trailing blanks in "file1" with a single <CR> (^M) in "file2".

NB. to embed the <CR> in your sed command you type <CTRL>-V,<CTRL>-M

graeme

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