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RE: Question about simple sorting.

2005-08-27 12:27:22

From: Michelle Konzack
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 4:53 AM
[..]
  SUB=`formail -zX Subject: |mimedecode |tr -ds '[\n\t\r]' ' '`
[...]

which works.  The shell has eaten the \.

Please note from my previous reply:

It turns out that -d and -s don't work well together because
once the character is deleted, it can't be checked for
multiple suppression and translation.

Thus, if 'tr' is our tool of choice that a dual pipeline
is needed:

  tr -d '\n' | tr -s '[[:space:]]' ' '

sed, perl, and other tools can likely be coaxed into doing
this in a single step.




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