Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Gurus,
I have some 100 files which have the content like this...
tname,
fullname,
firstname,
)

I want to remove the comma before the bracket ")". Data will be different in all the 100's of files and i have to remove the comma before the bracket.. one important thing is after comma there is a new line character..

Please help me out...
Thanks
RS

Code:

 
nawk ' BEGIN{RS=")"} {print substr($0,1,length($0)-2) ")" }' inputfile

GNU sed. You can literally insert the second newline in another seds.

Code:

sed 'N; s/,\n)/\n)/'

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