[ale] Sed/Awk/PERL question

[Jim Kinney]

sed -i 's/;$//' filename

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Bob Kruger <bkruger at mindspring.com> wrote:

> All;
>
> I have a 1.3GB text file that has multiple fields separated by semicolons.
>  Format follows:
>
> field1;field2;field3;...field24;
> .
> .
> .
> field1;field2;field3;...field24;
>
> I need a quick and dirty method to delete the last semicolon.
>
> Any ideas or thoughts?
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
>
> V/r
>
> Bob
>
>
>
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