what's an equivalent for the following Perl one-liner?

[Don Hinton]

On Thursday 22 December 2005 13:52, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > Try col(1) or tr(1) to remove the carriage return and then sed to remove
> > the spaces.
>
> Well, yes, but that's a two-stage process. A shame to go through the whole
> file twice just because our tools aren't good enough.

How about this:

sed 's/ *[[:cntrl:]]$//' 

hth...
don
>
> 	-mi
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Don Hinton <don.hinton at vanderbilt.edu>                    615.480.5667
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