in reply to Re: Trailing spaces to lines less than x characters
in thread Trailing spaces to lines less than x characters
That should be...
perl -lne 'printf "%-76s", $_' infile > outfile
...otherwise the spaces will get appended after the newline on each existing line, and then another newline will be appended after that.
Also in-place editing could look like this:
perl -lni.bak -e 'printf "%-76s", $_' infile
Dave
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