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Old 11-17-2008
Franklin52 Franklin52 is online now Forum Staff  
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If your sed version doesn't support the POSIX Character Classes you can use a space and a \t within the square brackets:


Code:
sed 's/[ \t]*$//'

Older versions of sed even doesn't recognize the \t as a tab. In that case you can type <Ctrl-V> <TAB> successively instead of \t:


Code:
sed 's/[     ]*$//'

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Last edited by Franklin52; 11-17-2008 at 09:26 AM..