cut last character in a string

[Coolmar]

testc
namec
test2c

How do I take the "c" off the end of each string?

[Matti_Kurkela · Accepted solution]

sed -e 's/.$//g' < with-c.txt > without-c.txt

MK

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Here is one approach using cut.

IN=testc
OUT=$(echo "${IN}" | cut -c 1-$((${#IN} - 1)))
echo "IN = \"${IN}\""
echo "OUT = \"${OUT}\""

[Ivan Krastev]

cat file | cut -b -1 > file2


regards,
ivan

[Coolmar]

Thanks

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

pure shell builtins (I used ksh):

a=stringwithlastg
typeset -R1 ll=$a
echo ${a%*${ll}}
stringwithlast

mfG Peter