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How can I preserve new lines coming from a command's output during variable assignment?
Consider:
$ getfacl somefile.dat # The output is formatted and contains several new lines..
# file: somefile.dat
# owner: user1
# group: group1
user::rw-
group::r-- #effective:r--
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Script failing with “command not found: ^M”
When I try to run the following script in zsh, via the command /bin/zsh ~/.set_color_scheme.sh I get the following error:
command not found: ^M
The script has u+x permissions and it used to work on ...
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How to skip file in sed if it contains regex?
I currently use the following simplified command to remove trailing whitespace and add a newline at end of file where needed:
find . -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/[ \t]\+\(\r\?\)$/\1/;$a\' {} \+
As ...
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Removing all spaces, tabs, newlines, etc from a variable?
This is the error I am getting and it's failing because of a variable whose value is supposed to be 2 (I am getting this using a select * from tabel).
I am getting spaces in that variable.
+ 0 !=
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How to add a newline to the end of a file?
Using version control systems I get annoyed at the noise when the diff says No newline at end of file.
So I was wondering: How to add a newline at the end of a file to get rid off those messages?
