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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:46:51 -0600
From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>
To: Tony <tony@idk.com>
Subject: Re: removing last line
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Tony (tony@idk.com) wrote:

> I need a way of removing just the last line in a text file using a csh
> script.
> 
> Any ideas?

#!/bin/csh
set count = `cat $1 | wc -l`;
@ newcount = $count - 1;
head -n $newcount $1

-- 
Christopher Farley
www.northernbrewer.com

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