Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Tyler MacDonald writes: > > OK, so I might need something more portable than cpio... but the > >"\s.*" part does serve a purpose; the MANIFEST file format allows for a > >description of the file after whitespace. I guess I could do "[ \t]" or > >something else instead of the \s. > > Ah, I didn't think of that. You cannot use \t either, but using a literal > TAB inside the brackets works portably AFAIK.
If you consider POSIX systems as being portable enough then using the [:space:] character class should work pretty well. s,[[:space:]].*,, Bob
