Hi,
First time on the forum. I have converted some files using the Unix to DOS command but need to strip off the last record that is generated from this conversion that contains just a ^Z. Is there any command that would accomplish this without having to do stream editing?

Without stream editing? I don't understand that requirement.

Have you tried:

You put me on the right track. I ended up using sed and successfully stripped off the ^Z at the end of the file by using:

sed '/^Z/d' myfile|cat > newfile

Thanks for the help.

What is the 'cat' for? Why not just: ?

Well, I'm constantly learning that there's multiple ways of doing things in the Unix world! I removed the 'cat' code from my script and ran it again redirecting the output to the new file name and it works the same way as
the other logic that I had used. Thanks again for the fast response and help.