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Date:      Sat, 22 Nov 2003 21:00:26 +0800
From:      Zhang Weiwu <weiwuzhang@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   newbie: use <CR> in RE?
Message-ID:  <3FBF5DEA.2030405@hotmail.com>

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Hello. Just want to know how to use special character in Regular Expression.

I wish to remove all the carrier returns from a text file, I can use:
tr -d "\r" < text_file > modified_text_file
But if I do:
sed -i s/\r//g text_file
it actually removes all the character "r" from the file.

This is also a problem in vi(1). Besides <CR> I wish to manipulate 
tabstops and line-feeds with RE too.



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