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Old 06-20-2005
Question How to delete last character of a line?
Hello,
I think I'm close to doing this, but I could be wrong.
I have a string I would like to search for and delete the last character of the that line.
This is what I have...
sed 's/POHEAD\(.\)$//g' tempd > tempe

The above works if I search for P, but that won't work. I need to search for POHEAD.

thnx,
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Old 06-20-2005
Code:
sed '/POHEAD/ s/.$//' tempd > tempe

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Old 06-20-2005
Thank you very muchSmilie
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