[Pdx-pm] command line options
Thomas J Keller
kellert at ohsu.edu
Wed May 19 16:01:22 CDT 2004
Hi all,
Simple question, but I can't find the answer.
I want to do the simplest thing: read a tab delimited file with Mac
('\cM' carriage return) endings, and remove extra whitespace.
I wrote this on the command line:
perl -i.bak -pe 'local $/ = "\cM'; s/[\s\t]+/\t/g;' input.txt
It removes the extra whitespace, but doesn't keep the line endings,
i.e. output is a single line.
I also tried the -0 option with "\cM", but that gave an error.
Please help.
Thanks,
Tom K.
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