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Re: New sed in latest


--- Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
> So, with the new sed behavior the following is no longer going to work,
> right?

No, not right.

> 
> ---dos2unix----
> #!/bin/bash
> sed 's/^M//' $1
> ---------------
> 
> Where the '^M' is generated by pressing CTRL-V, CTRL-M.
> 

In text mode, it is the \n that terminates the read.  If there is a \r
preceding the \n it will also be removed and the count read reduced by one.  If
there is no preceding \r then the count returned is the number actually read.

Cheers,

=====
---
   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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