02-01-2010
sed - append text to every line
Hi Scrutinizer
It would appear not.
While it is true that the data has been copied from Windows, `cat'ing and `vi'ing the file shows up no ctrl-M characters as line ends.
Thanks for the input though, much appreciated.
BRgds
JG
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Scrutinizer
Oops - my bad!
You were right. Even though VI / CAT showed no ctrl-m chars (they DO show up under MP-RAS when it occurs), the file was in fact encoded as DOS (x'0d0a' line ends). a quick dos2unix fixed it for me!
Thanks - I thought I was going nuts.
BRgds
JG
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cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output
SYNOPSIS
cat [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output.
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