On Apr 4, 2005 8:01 AM, Dallman Ross <dman(_at_)nomotek(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:24:52PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
tr -d $'\t' |tr -d $'\n' |tr -d $'\r' |\
Crimeney, but that is ugly.
"Crimony" :-)
I can't figure out what the $'s are for in there.
That's POSIX shell syntax. A dollar sign followed by a single quote
indicates that the following string up to the matching single quote is
to have C string interpretation applied with respect to backslashes
etc. (It's not *exactly* C syntax, but close enough.)
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