On 17:29 07 Nov 2003, Stuart Stephen <stuart.stephen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Fixed it, it was a stupid space after one of the '\' characters. | | You would have thought that they'd be able to strip whitespaces off the end | of lines in this day and age. | | *sigh* That's a job for you or your editor. What if I wanted to grep out all lines with no spaces? grep -v \ Yes, there's a trailing space there. I'm using "\ " instead of "' '". Perfectly legitimate. And yeah I really do that sometimes:-) BTW, I have this keymap to hand in vi, via my .exrc: map ,w :%!cleanwhite ^ which pipes the file through cleanwhite: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/scripts/cleanwhite That ^M is a literal control-m. The second ^ is just a circumflex. That's mostly for cleaning up cut/paste from curses displays (vi, mutt etc) and does a detab you may not want (the sed is what you could have used). But it's handy. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ My computer always does exactly what I tell it to do but sometimes I have trouble finding out what it was that I told it to do. - Dick Wexelblat <rlw@xxxxxxx> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
