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Removing selectively the last character from a file

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I have a file whose last character is "\". I need to remove this character.

Problem is suppose i have 50 lines in a file, 40 lines last character is "\" and the remaining 10 lines are good(i mean these 10 lines do not have "\" character)

How can i remove this character from the file.

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