Hi, I have a script that outputs a file that contains the dates from the previous month, which is then used by our application to run processes on each date contained in the file. My problem is is that my script created a blank line at the bottom of the file which causes issues for our application. I'm looking for suggestions on how to stop or remove the last line/carriage return. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!


Here is the current script:

echo "Creating DATES file. `date +"%m-%d-%Y_%H:%M:%S"`"
outdir=/test/iofiles

# ja fe ma ap ma ju ju ag se oc no de
set -A lasts 0 31 28 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31
typeset -Z2 dmonth dday

month=`date +%m`
year=`date +%y`
((pmonth=month-1))

rm $outdir/date.txt

day=1
while((day<(lasts[pmonth])+1)) ; do
dday=$day
dmonth=$pmonth
echo ${dmonth}/${dday}/${year} >> $outdir/date.txt
((day=day+1))
done
echo "DATES file created. `date +"%m-%d-%Y_%H:%M:%S"`"

Should I place this after the while loop or within it? I placed it after the loop and I still had the blank line at the end of the file.

You have that code at the end of the loop.
Do you mean you have blank line or line with "/" at the end of the file?

It just has a blank line at the end

---------------
09/01/06
09/02/06
09/03/06
09/04/06
09/05/06
09/06/06
09/07/06
09/08/06
09/09/06
09/10/06
09/11/06
09/12/06
09/13/06
09/14/06
09/15/06
09/16/06
09/17/06
09/18/06
09/19/06
09/20/06
09/21/06
09/22/06
09/23/06
09/24/06
09/25/06
09/26/06
09/27/06
09/28/06
09/29/06
09/30/06
<---Want to remove this blank line.
--------------------------------

Thanks.

Above code should work. I dont know whats happening in your case.
Try this