On 16:17 30 Oct 2003, Kunkel, Mark <mckunkel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | We are attempting to use sed to remove blank lines from a stream with: | | sed '/^[ ]*$/d' | | where the brackets contain a space and a tab. This works with cygwin, but | not on RedHat 8. | | Both systems report the sed version as 3.02 | | I have two questions. | | 1.) Does anyone know that this has been corrected in a newer version of sed? I doubt it's a sed bug. (It has them, but not something this basic). | 2.) Does anyone know of another way to match end of line with sed? You're doing it right. Check: that you really have a space and a tab in there, rather than some cut/paste accident with a bunch of spaces and no tab that the data file is a nice clean UNIX file - no DOS line endings in it. The latter will show as ^M at the end of the line in vi. "od -c" will also make this obvious. How did the data file get to your UNIX box? Maybe you need to dos2unix the data file. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Here's a great .sig I wrote, so good it doesn't rhyme. Jon Benger <jbenger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
