Unix Scripting Question

[Chris Purcell]

> Thanks Robert, but that says 2349 substitutions (# of lines in my file)
> - but I can <ESC> $ and end up 25 or so right spaces to the right of the
> closing quote -
>
>
>
> Breaking this down - it looks like % = entire file, s/ is search/replace
> \ $ means space before end of line //g means replace it with nothing and
> do it for every occurance of that line - seems logical to me - but
> doesn't seem to work.

I thought we were talking about trailing whitespace at the end of the
actual filenames, such as this...

touch "/root/some file with trailing whitespace     "

Is that your problem, or do you have trailing whitespace in your a.lst
file, such as...

"/etc/samba/smb.conf    "



Chris