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Old 12-16-2009
Question shell script to remove the last character(.) of a string

hi

I have a list of words in a text file. these words are appended by "." at their end. They look something like this.

word1.
word2.
word3.
word4.
word5.

I need to remove the last character "." from all the words. The output must look something like this.

word1
word2
word3
word4
word5

Can u please help me in writing the script for this? Please do help me out with this.
# 2  
Old 12-16-2009
Code:
sed 's/\.$//' oldfile > newfile

# 3  
Old 12-16-2009
show us what you've tried so far...
# 4  
Old 12-16-2009
@jim mcnamara

Thanks Jim. It worked for me

@ DukeNuke2
This is what i tried with
sed 's/\(.*\)./\1/'
# 5  
Old 12-16-2009
Code:
gawk '{for(o=1;o<=NF;o++){ sub(/\.$/,"",$o) } }{print} ' file

# 6  
Old 12-16-2009
-never mind-
# 7  
Old 12-17-2009
hi

assuming that your file is at /home/dummy/temp/file1

Code:
while read line
do
        temp=${line%.}
        echo $temp >> /home/dummy/temp/op1
done < /home/dummy/temp/file1

cheers
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