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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sed command not working Post 302096141 by shashi_kiran_v on Tuesday 14th of November 2006 06:43:51 AM
Old 11-14-2006
I was able to come over this problem by using the following sed command

sed -e 's/ *$/ /g' instead of sed -e 's/ *$//g'

But I don't understand the need of space between the forward slashes.

Thanks.. Smilie
 

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cd(1T)							       Tcl Built-In Commands							    cd(1T)

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NAME
cd - Change working directory SYNOPSIS
cd ?dirName? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
Change the current working directory to dirName, or to the home directory (as specified in the HOME environment variable) if dirName is not given. Returns an empty string. Note that the current working directory is a per-process resource; the cd command changes the working directory for all interpreters and (in a threaded environment) all threads. EXAMPLES
Change to the home directory of the user fred: cd ~fred Change to the directory lib that is a sibling directory of the current one: cd ../lib SEE ALSO
filename(1T), glob(1T), pwd(1T) KEYWORDS
working directory ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWTcl | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org. Tcl cd(1T)
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