[PLUG] Need a vi command...

Kenneth G. Stephens kens at kens.cad2cam.com
Sat Aug 23 16:42:01 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 16:05, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> I have a log file from installation and I want to strip the trailing
> period on each line.  I've already cut all the lines to get rid of
> the installing and I've sorted as well.  I've formatting this to
> compare against what I currently have installed output by an rpm -qa. 
> I am looking for what I uninstalled that could cause the current
> problems I'm seeing.
> 
>      --  Michael
> 
> So far I've tried '1,$s/\.\n/\n/g,' which causes an ^@ to be substituted
> instead of a newline.

Try 1, $s/\.$//  The "g" is unnecessary as you are only getting rid of
the last period in each line.

Ken





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