Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" To: "'Hannu E K Nevalainen'" , ML CygWIN Subject: RE: Using sed - guru help wanted. Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:25:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain How about $ echo ' a b / c d e ' | \ sed -e 's/ *$.*$ *\/ *$.*$ */.\1.\2./' \ -e 's/ \./\./g' -----Original Message----- From: Hannu E K Nevalainen [mailto:garbage_collector AT telia DOT com] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 3:11 PM To: ML CygWIN Subject: OT: Using sed - guru help wanted. $ echo ' a b / c d e ' | od -w8 -t x1z 0000000 20 61 20 62 20 2f 20 63 > a b / c< 0000010 20 64 20 65 20 0a > d e .< 0000016 $ echo ' a b / c d e ' | \ sed -e 's/ *$.*$ *\/ *$.*$ */.\1.\2./' .a b .c d e . I want the output to be '.a b.c d e.' - that is; strip out the trailing spaces. HOW do I achieve that? ( \s = any ws, \S = any non ws ) Obviously $.*$ grabs/includes the last space. My brain has stoppped working, so right now I can't work around that :-I /Hannu E K Nevalainen - almost nuts again ;-P -- printf("Timezone: %s\n", (DST)?"UTC+02":"UTC+01"); -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/