Hi, I searched the forums but could not find anything that was very useful. I am trying to remove the very last line from a file and display the rest of the file.
Is there a way to use cut and tail together? Any other suggestions? Thanks

sed '$d' <input_filename >output_filename

Do you have to make an output file?

what do you want???

1. to just display

$ sed '$d' your_infile_name

2. to save the changes to a new file

$ sed '$d' <your_input_filename >new_output_filename

were the new_output_filename will be created once the command got executed. instead of your_input_filename provide your source filename and instead of output_filename just give some name. once after executed a new file will be created without the last line from your input_filename.

If you do not want to create extra file then you can do this :

echo "`sed '$d' file`" > file

I ran that command

sed '$d' OLD_FILE > NEW_FILE

that's ok,

can you check the old and the new files.

old file will contain all the lines.
new file will contain 1 line minus than the old.

So, your correct output will be in NEW_FILE.

Note: no issue with the no of line in the files.