Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:07:02 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Gerard Samuel <fbsd-questions@trini0.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Means of trimming files Message-ID: <20040629130702.4116ec60.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <200406291301.36285.fbsd-questions@trini0.org> References: <200406291301.36285.fbsd-questions@trini0.org>
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Gerard Samuel <fbsd-questions@trini0.org> wrote: > When editing php files, via the command line, there is a newline character > after the closing ?> > Im looking for a command that would trim files, so that I can append it to the > find command. > > find ./ -name '*.php' -exec SOME_COMMAND {} \; If you're absolutely sure of the number of characters you're removing from the end of the file, you could use truncate(1). Otherwise, you'll probably want sed or perl to check that it's not removing important characters. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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