[PLUG] Need a vi command...

[Siobhan Elliott]

begin electrogrammati illius Michael C. Robinson:
> 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.

:%s/\.$//g
 
-Siobhan

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