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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting deleting 'carriage return' from string Post 302174260 by Franklin52 on Monday 10th of March 2008 02:23:13 PM
Old 03-10-2008
Or:

Code:
sed 's/^M$//' file > newfile

Press Ctrl-V then Ctrl-M toget ^M in the sed command.

Regards
 

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o $connection - The connection identifier. o $objectID - The object identifier, or an array of identifiers. o $query - The query string has the following syntax: <expr> ::= "(" <expr> ")" | "!" &lt;expr> | /* NOT */ <expr> "||" <expr> | /* OR */ <expr> "&amp;&amp;" <expr> | /* AND */ <attribute> <operator> <value> <attribute> ::= /* any attribute name (Title, Author, DocumentType ...) */ <operator> ::= "=" | /* equal */ "<" | /* less than (string compare) */ ">" | /* greater than (string compare) */ "~" /* regular expression matching */ RETURN VALUES
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