> 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).
Andrew hit it on the nose, then. Someone else recently had some email issues with
similar issues.
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