remove new line

[ousseynou diagne]

How to remove the LAST new line in a file in HP-UNIX?
Thanks,

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If you truly mean *only* the last newline character:

# perl -pe 's{\n}{} if eof' file

If you (on the other hand) simply mean the last *line*, then:

# perl -pe 'last if eof' file

Regards!

...JRF...

[ousseynou diagne]

Thanks. I will try your solutions.

[Hein van den Heuvel]

More importantly, please try to explain the actual problem.
We are all curious whether you really meant what you wrote (#1), or what JRF (and myself) think you meant to ask.

The solutions of course work for the problems JRF describes. Whether that corresponds your problem is the realy questions.

fwiw,
Hein.