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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to remove new line character at end of file. Post 302622635 by varun940 on Thursday 12th of April 2012 12:07:06 PM
Old 04-12-2012
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
while read line
do
   echo "$line\c"
done < inputfile > outputfile

This removed all new line characters. I want only last to be removed.

Ques: What exactly do you want to do? Remove blank lines from your input, remove all newline characters, or just remove the last newline character?
Ans: I want only last new line character to be removed.

i.e.
My data is
Code:
A<new line>
B<new line>
c<new line>
D<new line>

So If I open the file cursor is at the new line below D. I want that cursor should be just after D. I want only last <new line> to be removed.

Ques: OS distribution.
Ans: Sorry, please tell me how to check.

---------- Post updated at 09:37 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:54 PM ----------

Code:
last=$(tail -1 echo_hsa_file.txt)
sed '$d' < echo_hsa_file.txt > echo_hsa_file1.txt
echo "${last}"\\c  >> echo_hsa_file1.txt


This worked.Thanks all for all the help.

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Last edited by Scrutinizer; 04-12-2012 at 01:17 PM..
 

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