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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: John Kendall <john <at> capps.com>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>, "19240 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <19240 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#19240: cut 8.22 adds newline
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 15:01:23 -0700

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On 12/04/2014 02:56 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> So does sed, although no longer a short one-liner:
> 
> echo "$FILE" | sed -e 's/^\(.\{30\}\).*/\1/' \
>                    -e '$ {' \
>                    -e   's/$/ ============================/' \
>                    -e   's/^\(.\{30\}\).*/\1/' \
>                    -e   '$ s/$/ matches ==========/' \
>                    -e '}'

Or:

 echo "$FILE ============================" | \
  sed -e 's/^\(.\{30\}\).*/\1/' \
      -e '$ s/$/ matches ==========/'

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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