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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed to remove last 2 characters of txt file Post 302252544 by ajp7701 on Wednesday 29th of October 2008 07:22:24 PM
Old 10-29-2008
sed to remove last 2 characters of txt file
sed 's/^..//' file1.txt > file2.txt
this will remove the first two characters of each line of a text file, what sed command will remove the last two characters? This is a similar post to my other....sry if I'm being lazy....

I need a file like this (same as last post)
>cat file1.txt
10081551
10081599
10082234
10082259
20081134
20081159
30082232
10087721
>
to look like this:
>cat file1.txt
100815
100815
100822
100822
200811
200811
300822
100877
>
 

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unix2dos

unix2dos(1)						      General Commands Manual						       unix2dos(1)

NAME

       unix2dos - UNIX to DOS text file format converter

SYNOPSYS

       unix2dos [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]

       Options:

       [-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents unix2dos, the program that converts text files in UNIX format to DOS format.

OPTIONS

       The following options are available:

       -h --help
	      Print online help.

       -k --keepdate
	      Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.

       -q --quiet
	      Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.

       -V --version
	      Prints version information.

       -c --convmode convmode
	      Sets conversion mode. Simulates unix2dos under SunOS.

       -o --oldfile file ...
	      Old file mode. Convert the file and write output to it. The program default to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.

       -n --newfile infile outfile ...
	      New  file  mode.	Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be
	      used or you WILL lost your files.

EXAMPLES

       Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.

	      unix2dos

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.

	      unix2dos a.txt b.txt

	      unix2dos -o a.txt b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode.  Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode.

	      unix2dos a.txt -c iso b.txt

	      unix2dos -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.

	      unix2dos -k a.txt

	      unix2dos -k -o a.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.

	      unix2dos -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.

	      unix2dos -k -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.

	      unix2dos a.txt -n b.txt e.txt

	      unix2dos -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt

       Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt.  Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.

	      unix2dos -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt

DIAGNOSTICS

BUGS

       The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode.  If you know why is that so, please tell me.

AUTHOR

       Benjamin Lin - ( blin@socs.uts.edu.au )

MISCELLANY

       Tested environment:

	      Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8

	      SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3

	      MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02

       Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.

SEE ALSO

       dos2unix(1)

1995.03.31							   unix2dos v2.2						       unix2dos(1)
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