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Old 12-05-2007
awk - delete last two letters

Hello!

How do I remove the last two letters "GB" off each line, using awk?
What I need to remove is the "GB" in following input:
.....
30GB
2504GB
3GB
40GB
......

The OS used is Solaris9

Regards,
Fredrik
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Old 12-05-2007
Code:
echo '30GB' | nawk 'sub("..$", "")'

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