sed fails to remove newline character
I’ve been using sed for quite some time but here is a quirk I came around with, which I am not able to resolve.
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What is the purpose of “~” in the command “sed ‘s~ ~~g'”?
I found line sed ‘s~ ~~g’ in a shell script on a Linux system. What is this ~? Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the issue immediately. So please treat them as advisements. If you found the post helpful (or … Read more
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