James B. Byrne writes:
>
> I have a question regarding the vi editor under POSiX (5.5PP2)
>
> How does one use the s command to replace line feeds at the end of
> lines.  On HP-UX I can enter the command:
>
> %s /^V<enter>//g

On MPE and HPUX I do the following in vi to delete the last character of every
line:

        :1,$s/.$//

The key is ".$": . = any character, $ = at the end of the line.
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