On Fri, 7 May 1999, George Greer wrote:
>The 'i' is strictly necessary there but it's handy in case you want to make
>a backup (-i.bak) or you're expanding the file in the process of the
>substitution.
That should read:
The 'i' is not strictly necessary ...
in case anyone's English parser SIGSEGV'd.
I'd definitely recommend a '-i.bak' just in case too. A typo there could
be really nasty. Think 's/r+//'
I suppose a 'g' at the end of the regex would make it kill every one of
them but they only show up at the end of the line normally anyway, so...
--
George Greer
greerga@circlemud.org
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