Re: delete last line

Bill Campbell typed (on Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:47:37AM -0800):
| On Fri, Jan 11, 2008, Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
| >Jeff Hyman typed (on Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:20:40AM -0500):
| >| Jean-Pierre Radley typed (on Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 05:55:06PM -0500):
| >| | pablo typed (on Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:03:03PM -0800):
| >| | | how can I delete the last line of a text file from the command line ?
| >| | |
| >| | | I mean only last line
| >| |
| >| | sed '$d' in.file > out.file
| >| |
| >| | --
| >| | JP
| >|
| >| Well... now I'm curious.
| >|
| >| How would you delete ONLY the next-to-last line,
| >| leaving the previous very last line to replace
| >| the space where the next-to-last line was just
| >| removed?
| >
| >Badly phrased question. If you remove a line, there is no "space left
| >behind". There would only be a "space left behind" if you deleted the
| >just the line's visible contents, AKA as blanking the line. When one
| >says remove, one means removing the 'newline' as well, so that there's
| >nothing left at all.
| >
| >In any case, what you meant to do would want a small modification to what
| >Bill just posted:
| >
| >
| > ex - filename <<DONE
| > $
| > -
| > w
| > q
| > DONE
|
| Or more easily:
|
| ex - filename <<DONE
| $-1d
| w
| q
| DONE
|
| To delete 10 lines prior to the last line, leaving the last line:
|
| ex - filename <<DONE
| $-11,$-1d
| w
| q
| DONE
|
| Bill

I just replied to JP... and your reply here is the answer I was
curious about. Bill... you are the man!
JP, please disregard my last statement. I really don't
like you "that" much. <g>
- Jeff H
.

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