Viewing long YUM output

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 08:57:07 AM -0400, Lee_Maschmeyer at wayne.edu wrote:
> Nope.
> 
> Several problems in using dos2unix. In the first place, it's not ^M we
> want to get rid of, it's the overtyped lines which they
> conceal. Simply taking out ^M, which you can do with an editor, means
> those overtyped lines would be strung out in a long string whereas
> what we want to look at is only the last segment.

I think you could do this with vim as follows. This is untested.

:%s/^v^m[^^v^m]\(.+\)$/$1/

Where I have written ^v^m you should actually press ctrl+v ctrl+m. The
ctrl+v quotes the ctrl+m and lets you type it directly.

This expression says match a ^m followed by 1 or more non ^m characters
to the end of the line, then replace the whole line with only those non
^m characters in the parentheises. The % says to do this with every line
in the file.

I am no regular expression expert, so this may reak untold havoc and I
disclaim all responsibility for results of my inneptitude.

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Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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