Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 14:23:40 +0100 From: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: funny REINPLACE_CMD failure for \r Message-ID: <m3adkm3k83.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20021105013354.GA197@vectors.cx> (Adam Weinberger's message of "Mon, 4 Nov 2002 17:33:54 -0800") References: <20021105003210.GA92795@k7.mavetju> <20021105013354.GA197@vectors.cx>
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Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
>>> (11.04.2002 @ 1632 PST): Edwin Groothuis said, in 0.7K: <<
>> Greetings,
>>
>> It seems that REINPLACE_CMD doesn't know how to handle \r's in the
>> expression, "-e 's!\r!!'" fails all the time for me (no matter how
>> much \'s I add to it :-). Right now I just replace these by
>> "${TR} -d '\015' < file > file.new; {$MV} file.new file"
>> but I was wondering if somebody has a better solution for it.
>>
>> Edwin
>>> end of "funny REINPLACE_CMD failure for \r" from Edwin Groothuis <<
>
> Does ^V^M not work?
Are you confident the next editor (not vim or nvi though ;-) will keep
the binary CR character? I'm not. And it's at best ugly. (One can see
horses puke in front of pharmacies, as a German saying goes.)
--
Matthias Andree
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