On 17 Feb 2003 15:05:08 +1100 Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 13:23, Daniel Harper wrote: > > Anyone know how to rip ^M (dos line return) using sed? > > without reading the manual you might try 's/\r//g' this is definitely > not portable, if not use hex characters \015 from memory again...
I've never been able to figure out a portable way to mangle control chars with sed. Use tr is the standard advice, I think: echo '^M' | tr -d '\012' Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
