Index: /issm/trunk-jpl/jenkins/jenkins.sh
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--- /issm/trunk-jpl/jenkins/jenkins.sh	(revision 25965)
+++ /issm/trunk-jpl/jenkins/jenkins.sh	(revision 25966)
@@ -488,6 +488,6 @@
 
 if [ $EXAMPLES_TEST -eq 1 ]; then
-	# Inexplicably, there are backspace chars in the error output that are causing issues
-	sed -i '.bak' 's/\x08//g' matlab_log_examples.log
+	# Inexplicably, there are backspace characters in the error output; remove them
+	perl -p -i'.bak' -e 's/\x08//g' matlab_log_examples.log
 
 	numtests=`cat matlab_log_examples.log | grep "starting: " | wc -l`