Removing a character using sed - Shell Programming and Scripting

robotronic · #6 (**permalink**) 09-17-2007

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What if you could possibly have more than one % character at the end of the string? What command would you use then to ensure that there were no % chars at the end?

Code:

echo "82%%%" | sed 's/%*$//'

Quote:

I ask b/c I want to take a directory path that a user passes me, and if there are any / chars at the end, I want to delete them all.

Code:

echo "/this/is/my/path////" | sed 's!/*$!!'