Shell Programming and Scripting

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.

Code:

sed 's/\.$//' oldfile > newfile

show us what you've tried so far...

@jim mcnamara

Thanks Jim. It worked for me

@ DukeNuke2
This is what i tried with
sed 's/\(.*\)./\1/'

Code:

gawk '{for(o=1;o<=NF;o++){ sub(/\.$/,"",$o) } }{print} ' file

-never mind-

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