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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Trying to use sed to remove last FF from file Post 302886087 by Corona688 on Wednesday 29th of January 2014 03:50:47 PM
Old 01-29-2014
The problem comes from discovering what the 'last line' is. sed et al can't look back in time to see that. awk can read the file twice however, once to determine, once to substitute:

Code:
awk 'NR==FNR { LL=NR ; next }; FNR == LL { sub(/\014/, "\r"); }' inputfile inputfile > outputfile

\014 is the octal for a line feed, \r is its substitute. Use whatever you want for it.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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