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# 1  
Old 03-23-2015
sed removing extra character from end

Hi,

Searching through forum I found "sed 's/[ \t]*$//'" can be used to remove trailing whitespaces and tabs from file. The command works fine but I see minor issue as below. Can you please suggest if I am doing something wrong here.

Code:
$ cat a.txt
upg_prod_test
upg_prod_new

$ cat a.txt |sed 's/[ \t]$//'
upg_prod_tes
upg_prod_new

In above example the sed is removing trailing character if word is terminating with "t".

Thanks for your time.
# 2  
Old 03-23-2015
Looks like your sed doesn't like to interpret the escape sequence "\t"; other versions do.
If your shell allows for it, try
Code:
sed "s/[ "$'\t'"]$//" a.txt

or simply
Code:
sed 's/[  ]$//' a.txt
         ^--- use CTRL-V <TAB> for this char

.
# 3  
Old 03-23-2015
Still the same issue.
Code:
$ sed "s/[ "$'\t'"]$//" a.txt
upg_prod_tes
upg_prod_new

$ sed "s/[ "$'\t'"]*$//" a.txt
upg_prod_tes
upg_prod_new

Not sure if I would be able to make use the second option suggested as the "sed" is part of a SH which is copied from another server using scp command line.

Thanks.
# 4  
Old 03-23-2015
Another approach:
Code:
sed 's/[ \t]*$//' a.txt

Or us CTRL-V <TAB> for \t
# 5  
Old 03-23-2015
Strange. Works in bash on linux and (Free)BSD.
Code:
cat file
upg_prod_test
upg_prod_new    

sed "s/[ "$'\t'"]$//" file
upg_prod_test
upg_prod_new

sed 's/[        ]$//' file
upg_prod_test
upg_prod_new

What's your shell?
Pls try (with CTRL-V <TAB>)
Code:
sed 'p;s/[      ]$//' file

and post result
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# 6  
Old 03-23-2015
I am using KSH on AIX 6.1
# 7  
Old 03-23-2015
Code:
spc=`printf '[ \t]'`
<a.txt sed 's/'"$spc"'$//'

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