>> Pretty long script. How about this two-liner? It does not show 'bytes >> chomped' but it also trims trailing whitespace. >> >> #!/usr/bin/perl -i -p >> s/[ \t\r\n]+$// > > Yes, it does, but a bit too aggressive for what we need :) > Whoops, should have been s/[ \t\r]+$// And the CL form is perl -i -pe '...' Somehow, you can't group it to -ipe, but who cares. Jan Engelhardt -- - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html