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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting perl cmd to remove the control-Z character at end of 10GB file Post 302560362 by alister on Thursday 29th of September 2011 02:08:23 PM
Old 09-29-2011
If it's the last byte in the file, just use the truncate system call. Perl provides a wrapper for it. http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/truncate.html.

Regards,
Alister
 

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Perlanet::Trait::YAMLConfig(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Perlanet::Trait::YAMLConfig(3pm)

NAME
Perlanet::Trait::YAMLConfig - configure Perlanet through a YAML configuration file SYNOPSIS
package MyPerlanet; extends 'Perlanet'; with 'Perlanet::Traits::YAMLConfig'; my $perlanet = MyPerlanet->new_with_config( configfile => 'whatever.yml' ); $perlanet->run; DESCRIPTION
Allows you to move the configuration of Perlanet to an external YAML configuration file. Example Configuration File title: planet test description: A Test Planet url: http://planet.example.com/ author: name: Dave Cross email: dave@dave.org.uk entries: 20 opml: opml.xml page: file: index.html template: index.tt feed: file: atom.xml format: Atom cache_dir: /tmp/feeds feeds: - url: http://blog.dave.org.uk/atom.xml title: Dave's Blog web: http://blog.dave.org.uk/ - url: http://use.perl.org/~davorg/journal/rss title: Dave's use.perl Journal web: http://use.perl.org/~davorg/journal/ - url: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/feed/31?au=2607 title: Dave on O'Reillynet web: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2607 METHODS
THIRTY_DAYS The default length of caching, if caching options are present in the configuration get_config_from_file Extracts the configuration from a YAML file AUTHOR
Oliver Charles, <oliver.g.charles@googlemail.com> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2010 by Magnum Solutions Ltd. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available. perl v5.14.2 2012-03-17 Perlanet::Trait::YAMLConfig(3pm)
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