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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl RegExp to remove last character from strings Post 302181678 by ospreyeagle on Thursday 3rd of April 2008 02:55:54 PM
Old 04-03-2008
Solution: Remove last character from a string

Thanks for taking time to reply and seeing this post.

Following regexps worked best

#removes the last character from all the words of a string
(s/\w\b/ /) )

# replace last number (if it exists) with a space in macro var value

s/\d+\b/ / ;

# removes duplicate words if they exist
s/\s*(\w+\s+)\1/ /) ) ;
 

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UPDATE-METAINIT(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					UPDATE-METAINIT(1)

NAME
update-metainit - Generates init scripts SYNOPSIS
update-metainit [--remove initname [--purge] ] DESCRIPTION
Metainit solves the problem of writing good init scripts. Instead of manually creating these important files, they are derived from a declaritive description in the metainit files in /etc/metainit. These files can be shipped with packages or created by the local adminis- trator. If update-metainit called without argument, it will regenerate init scripts for all the files in /etc/metainit. The generated files contain a large warning in form of a comment that they will be overridden. Modifications are preferably done in the files in /etc/metainit and made effective by running update-metainit. If needed, the administrator can prevent modified init files by removing the warning comment. OPTIONS
--remove initname This command will remove any generated and non-modified scripts that were created by the metainit file with the name initname. --purge Only usable with --remove. Will remove the generated files even if modified. SEE ALSO
dh_metainit(1) AUTHOR
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