Hi Jeri! On Fr, 24 Dez 2010, Jeri Raye wrote:
> I need to modify a many files, all in the same way. > The modification is to > - add one space-character at the beginning of every line. > - delete the space-character at the end of every line. > > In other words: > If the line looks like this: > [start of line]12345 [end of line] > > It needs to become: > [start of line] 12345[end of line] > > How to do that? This sound like you want sed. For your use case, you probably want something like: sed -i 's/\(.*\) $/ \1/' files > And I want to place this in a batch file (working on windows xp)? Oh. On Windows, quoting might be the problem. I don't know much about it. But with cygwin, it's straight forward. regards, Christian -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
