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Re: fold -s leaves shameful wasted blanks at end of lines
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Dan Jacobson |
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Re: fold -s leaves shameful wasted blanks at end of lines |
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Sun, 10 Aug 2003 07:59:45 +0800 |
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>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
Jim> Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> fold -s leaves shameful wasted blanks at end of lines:
Jim> ...
>> Therefore there needs to be another switch to do away with them.
Jim> Yes. It looks like POSIX requires that.
Jim> # printf 'a b\n'|fold -w2 -s|cat -A
Jim> a $
Jim> b$
Jim> How about piping the result through a filter like this?
Jim> perl -pe 's/[ \t]+$//'
OK, warn people thusly on the man page and I'll let you off the hook.