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It's \n, and thank you for the tip on seeing the codes and the "letters".

I'm using gvim, but really MacVim. It is perhaps somewhere in there. But I don't know where.

Thank you everyone. ...

The file is a Unix file. No question about it.

When I execute :set list, each line is terminated by a red dollar sign ($). No ^M's in sight.

The file was created in the following way. It is...

I am trying to visually select a section of text in vim and then substitute for it using the :%s/ sequence.

First I visually select text. Then I yank using "ay. Then I type :%s/ followed by...

Thank you Jim for this tip.

I had made a stupid, stupid, stupid rookie mistake. The program was inadvertently set-up to take text from the command line and there was none forthcoming so it hung....

I am using getline to read a file in a BEGIN block:

BEGIN {
while ((getline < "testFile.html") > 0) {
print $0 > "text.html"
}
}

The file is a normal HTML file. For some reason...

Is it possible to use the escape sequence:

\r

to match a line feed in grep/egrep?

I want to use a regexp that crosses over two lines, and it does not seem to be possible.

Well, I had only recently started using the double quotes in the expression, and I had not yet gotten around to escaping the ! in the double quotes.

So, you are right. Félicitations et chapeau. ...

Here is a script using egrep that extracts the last word in each line:

egrep -o " [a-zA-Z'-]+[,:.!';?]*$" File.txt > Results.txt

If it is placed in a file with the requisite header:
...

I should add that I had overlooked the -o option to grep which is certainly the first place to start. I apologize for that total rookie error.

My excuse? I was using the "grep" facility in...

Thank you one and all! I have enough to keep me very busy. A great pleasure to receive your replies. Thanks again.

Unfortunately, I don't know that the "and" is in the second column. That's the problem.

The grep script pulls out all the *lines* with the matching expression.

I just want to pull out the subset of the text that matches the expression.

If the expression were /and/ and the line was...

I have a regexp that I wish to match against every line of a file using awk.

But I do not want to substitute it or select the line.

I want to pull the matched text out and put it in a different...

Thank you for your replies!

Unfortunately, here is a partial list of my file names:

1 INSERM Avenir, Epidemiology of Sudden Death in the Population, Paris XI University.rtf

24% mortality in...

How do I use cat (presumably with a sh script) to combine all the files in a directory without listing them individually.

Thank you for your patience with this very elementary question.:)