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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers delete last word of each line a directory Post 302697197 by pamu on Thursday 6th of September 2012 08:57:06 AM
Old 09-06-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by A-V

Code:
FILES="data/*"
for X in $FILES
do
    name=$(basename $X) 
    sed s/'\w*$'// $X > no-last/${name}
done

Can you please help me Smilie
Try with .
Code:
echo "$X" | sed s/'\w*$'//

 

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       wall - write message to all users

SYNOPSIS

       groupname] [file]

DESCRIPTION

       Without	arguments, the command reads a message from standard input until end-of-file.  Then it sends this message to all currently logged-
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WARNINGS

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