Subject: Re: regular irrexpressions
To: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
From: None <collver1@attbi.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/18/2002 22:24:49
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 01:02:50AM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> so much so that he didn't care if anyone could read it.  Nevertheless, I
> knew I needed to something I could do in perl with my eyes closed:
> 
> man indent |perl -pe's/.\010//g'
> 
> But I though, hey, this is why sed(1) was invented, right?  
> Bwahaha!  sed laughs at my silly inexpressions.  

man indent | sed s/.^H//

To get that ^H, press Control-V, then Control-H.

Cheers,

Ben