Dear all, although I know it isn't anything that directly refers to Debian, I dare to post since I have seen many similar questions. Please excuse!
The Problem: from a friend, I receive text-files that have a lot of whitespace before the end of a line or even lines consisting of only whitespace. For this reason, I set up a Makefile that would remove all whitespaces: ## receive: cat in_file \ | sed -e 's/\s*$$//' \ > new_in_file ## I expect this to remove all whitespaces '\s*'ending a line. But, funny enough, it removes all 's' ending a line. This has been driving me mad for a couple of hours.... that's why I dare to post. What's wrong with 's/\s*$$//' in a Makefile? I tried 's/\\s*$$//' -- with no success. Hopefully someone immediately sees the problem and can give me any hint. Thanks in advance, wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf | Wanna know anything about raw | <http://www.lpr.ch> | IP? <http://www.rawip.org> | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]