RE: Can't use special characters \n or \r

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

jay3205 wrote on 30 July 2008 04:46:

> I have a text file made in Windows, and I'm trying to replace all the
> carriage returns with nothing. However, whenever I use \r or \n to
> indicate 
> a carriage return or newline in a grep or sed search string, it is treated
> as a normal r and normal n. Anyone have any idea of what may be causing
> this?

 Normal grep and sed don't speak C-style escape chars.  Use the -P option
for perl regex style in grep and it'll work.  Dunno bout sed, but it all
gets tangled up in the matching against end-of-line $ anchor.  See also "tr
-d '\015'", and of course d2u.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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