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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Deleting the last non blank line from a file Post 303011722 by swathi reddy1 on Tuesday 23rd of January 2018 01:00:07 AM
Old 01-23-2018
Hi sir,
I am using below command to print the last non blank line
Code:
awk '/./{line=$0} END{print line}' file1

Now i want to delete that line and create one more file

But the below command can only delete the last line and copy the remaining lines to the new file
Code:
sed '$d' file1>file2

i am looking for a single command which can delete the last non blank record and copy the remaining content to the new file
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