Hello, gurus, and thanks again to all who replied so quickly: D.Glass, J.Riddoch, W.Heukels, L.Hecking, S.Hunt, J.Birtley, B.Hutin, ,M.Pfeiffer, etc... The most common and straightforward anwer to remove the trailing spaces on all line of a file was: cat <infile> | sed -e 's/ *$//' > <outfile> What this means: -e execute this command for every line s substitue / *$/ any number of spaces, followed by the end of the line... // ...with nothing (Quoted W.Heukels for the explanation) Thanks again. Original post below. Rami Aubourg ************************************************************ Hi, gurus, I'm trying trying to put up a shell script to clean up an ASCII file I have. The problem I have right now is that each line is padded with spaces until the end of each line. I would need to remove those trailing spaces, but am not very good at sed and awk. If someone has a suggestion, I'd be grateful. Rami Aubourg ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Mar 8 07:27:12 2002
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