On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> > How do I have sed remove the equal sign at the END of a line?
> >
> > I've tried sed 's/=$//' and the equal signs are still there.
>
> sed -e 's/=$//'
>
> (need the -e)
Sure?
[eben@pc eben]$ cat testfile
this
is=
a=
test
file
[eben@pc eben]$ sed -e 's/=$//' < testfile
this
is=
a=
test
file
,--
| -e script
|
| --expression=script
| Add the commands in script to the set of commands to be run
| while processing the input.
'--
Might it be an encoding issue? I've seen "=" at EOL, apparently meaning
"wrap text to window width if possible, regardless of LFs".
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