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Re: Which characters to quote ?

2005-04-04 08:10:33
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:24:52PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:

I decode it with:

formail -zX Subject: |mimedecode |\
                      tr -d $'\t' |tr -d $'\n' |tr -d $'\r' |\
                      sed "s,\ \ , ,g"

which works quiet well...  :-)

Crimeney, but that is ugly.

I can't figure out what the $'s are for in there.  But anyway,
maybe something like this would work instead:

  | tr -ds '[\n\t\r]' ' '

(From "man tr":)

    -s      The -s option squeezes multiple occurrences of the characters
             listed in the last operand (either string1 or string2) in the
             input into a single instance of the character.  This occurs after
             all deletion and translation is completed.

-- 
dman

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