I am trying to concatenate 2 files, but before concatenation, I would like to strip off the final character from the first file.

The final character is a form feed (ascii 012 / hex 0C) and there will be an unknown number of these characters in the file. It is only the very last one which I want to remove.

Think I've found my fix unless someone has a more elegant solution...

# Set Split Size 1 Byte Less than Total
((SPLITSIZE=`wc -m $SRCFILE | awk '{print $1}'` - 1))
# Split File
split -b $SPLITSIZE $SRCFILE $SRCFILE.
# Concatenate Header with Second File
cat $SRCFILE.aa $SCNDFILE > mergefile.pcl
# Clean up detritus
rm $SRCFILE*.*