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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to cut a field of a line in a text file? Post 302296967 by bhaskar_m on Thursday 12th of March 2009 08:27:21 AM
Old 03-12-2009
how to cut a field of a line in a text file?
Hi,
I have text file which contains lines like :
a/a/a/a/.project
b/b/b/b/b/.project
c/c/c/.project
d/.project
e/e/e/e/.project

i want for all lines the last word .project should be removed and the file should look like :

a/a/a/a/
b/b/b/b/b/
c/c/c/
....

how to proceed ? Please help. Thanks in advance.
 

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vala-gen-project

vala-gen-project(1)						   USER COMMANDS					       vala-gen-project(1)

NAME

       vala-gen-project - generate the and automake skeleton for your vala project

SYNOPSIS

       vala-gen-project [OPTION...] [NAME]

DESCRIPTION

       Vala project generator is a little gui or command line utility that creates an automake project skeletoni vala program.

       It can be used without specifying a project name, so that a gtk+ gui will be presented or directly from the command line.

OPTIONS

       -?, --help		      Show help options

       -p, --projectdir=DIRECTORY     Project directory

       -t, --type=TYPE		      Project TYPE: gtk+, console

       -l, --license=TYPE	      License TYPE: gpl2, gpl3, lgpl2, lgpl2.1, lgpl3, apache2, artistic

       --version		      Display version number

       -a, --author=NAME	      Author name

       -e, --email=EMAIL	      Author email address

EXAMPLES

       Create a gtk+ project with a gpl2 license and the name valatest

	      vala-gen-project -t gtk+ -l gpl2 valatest

EXIT STATUS

       vala-gen-project returns a zero exist status if it succeed.  Non zero is returned in case of failure.

AUTHOR

       Andrea Del Signore (sejerpz (at) tin.it)

SEE ALSO

       valac(1)

version 0.1.0							 December 24, 2008					       vala-gen-project(1)
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