My mistake...I had already done the stty -a to check my control settings, thought it was what I was looking for, then saw your suggestion and decided to opt with that solution instead. =\
I am after all a newbie!!! Thanks to both of you for your help. I *did* check to make sure yours worked. -James --- Bob Showalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: The Black Man [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 1:31 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: matching EOF within a regex > > > > > > Hi Jeff, > > > > Thanks a lot. That was exactly what I was looking > > for. > > > > -James > > --- Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 4, The Black Man said: > > > > > > >I'm trying to quickly insert a newline at the > end > > > of a > > > >bunch of files, but haven't been able to find > an > > > EOF > > > >metacharacter for use within a regexp. Anyone > have > > > >any sugestions? > > > > > > Unless your EOF is different from mine, \cD will > > > match it. > > Wait a minute. Are you saying your files actually > have a > Control-D at the end? Control-D is a common > character > used by terminal drivers to indicate end-of-file, > (stty eof) but it's captured by the driver. > > There is no "end-of-file" character in Unix. You > know > when you hit the end of file when read(2) returns > less > than the requested length. > > Or am I totally missing something? ===== "Still pond, frog jumps in. Splash!" "There he goes...one of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some sort, never meant for mass production... Too weird to live, and too rare to die..." AIM: TaoJonesin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
