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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove trailing space in Gawk Post 302938359 by Scrutinizer on Sunday 15th of March 2015 03:34:56 AM
Old 03-15-2015
The file.is in Windows format with trailng carriage return characters

Convert to Unix first:
Code:
tr -d '\r' < oldfile > newfile

 

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aha takes SGR-colored Input and prints W3C conform HTML-Code. aha reads the Input from a file or stdin and writes HTML-Code to stdout. OPTIONS
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