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Re: Can't use special characters \n or \r
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:51:09 -0400
- Subject: Re: Can't use special characters \n or \r
- References: <18725646.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
jay3205 wrote:
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?
What's wrong with 'd2u'?
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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