12-11-2012
OK ive got it, i run the same command (sed 's/^,//g; s/,...$/\\r\$/g' file1 > file4) in the server HP-UX and work it out succesfully working with the same file. the server is :
HP-UX proetldb01c B.11.31 U ia64 4072542272 11 but in my computer with Ubuntu installed didnt work. So the problem has something to do with the version of sed in Ubuntu ?
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NAME
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SYNOPSIS
what-patch [options]
DESCRIPTION
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