Re: Stripping trailing blanks?

[Post, Mark K]

Which can be shortened by two more keystrokes to
        sed 's/ *$//' $file > /tmp/strip.$$


Mark Post

-----Original Message-----
From: Henry, Jeff (J.) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 11:45 AM
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Subject: Re: Stripping trailing blanks?


-snip-

A nominee for the "Useless use of cat" award:

        cat $file | sed "s/ *$//" > /tmp/strip.$$

vs.:

        sed "s/ *$//" < $file > /tmp/strip.$$

:)