Deleting last line in the file

[mvr]

Hello,

I need to delete the last line from the file (see attachment). The last line will always be same, but the numbers in between will grow. As you can conclude, the file is created from the user id in /etc/passwd

[Jean-Luc Oudart · Accepted solution]

There are different solution , why not "vi" ?
vi +$ dd
ZZ
EOP

Et Voila
Jean-Luc

[James Specht]

Quick fix.

head -`expr $(cat junk|wc -l) - 1` junk

Where junk = filename.

[Rodney Hills]

How about-

sed -e '$d' outputfile

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[mvr]

Thank you all.
I did it on the next way:

sed '/10010/d' uid > uid.new
mv uid.new uid

Thank you for ideas.

Miro

[benoit Bruckert]

Hi,
this little script should works :
LINES=`wc -l | awk '{print $1}' `
LINES2=`expr $LINES - 1 `
head -n $LINES2 >

hth
Benoit

[Steve Post]

How get print lines 23 through 45 in file ABC.
cat ABC | sed -n '23,45p'

Remove the last line
cat ABC | sed '$d'

That's such a nice trick. I found this on the hp forums....somewhere. It's good to keep these little tricks around.

steve