On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Andrew Barber wrote:
> --- Alex Harris <nccuss17@gmail.com> 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.
> There may be other characters after the =. Use od or
> xxd to view the hex output and see. Maybe it was
> created on a windows box and transfered to a Unix
> system in binary mode (via ftp with bin, or sftp).
> These will show up in cat -v as ^M.
Yep, that's it (in my case).
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