On Friday 05 December 2003 09:15, adam beecher wrote:
> For some reason an extra linefeed or line break got introduced into some
> pages in a clients site, anyone got any suggestions for how to get rid of
> em? I'm guessing I should be using something like sed, but I have no idea
> how. Here's a couple of pages with the problem:
perl -0777 -pi -e 's/\r\n\r\n/\r\n/g' <FILENAME>
will do what you want. It's left as an exercise for the reader to decide how
to apply this to a lot of files, but it's a piece of cake.
It's left as a further exercise for the curious reader to find out what this
is doing - man perlrun will help.
Perhaps if you avoid cruddy Windows tools you'll avoid this problem in the
future.
--
Niall
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