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Old 02-24-2011
Replace '$' with no character using tr command
Hi All,
Need your help urgently.

since '$' comes at the end of the line i want to remove '$' using tr command:

file:
Code:
111111|.11|.00$
222222|2.22|.00$
333333|.33|.00$
444444|.44|.00$

Thanks in Advance
Last edited by Franklin52; 02-24-2011 at 05:58 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
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Old 02-24-2011
There is a smiler post discussed recently.

Deleting the last character in a text file

You will need to escape the dollar -- \$
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Old 02-24-2011
Code:
tr -d '$' < file

# 4  
Old 02-24-2011
Code:
 $ ruby -i -ne 'print $_.sub(/\$$/,"")' file

# 5  
Old 02-24-2011
the $ end of line may also appear if you have the list option enabled in vi editor

to disable when in vi :

<Esc> make sure you switch to command mod
:set nolist to disable the list option
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Old 02-24-2011
Code:
sed 's/\$$//' infile

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Old 02-26-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by jlliagre
Code:
tr -d '$' < file

that would delete all "$" that is not at the end
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