remove last 3 characters from a line
Hi Experts,
I need to remove all the last 3 characters from the line for every line in the file.
How can I do this?
It would be great if you can give me a general way of removing any number of characters from a line.
Thank you.
I need to remove all the last 3 characters from the line for every line in the file.
How can I do this?
It would be great if you can give me a general way of removing any number of characters from a line.
Thank you.
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If you want to make the change inline (that is, without writing the changes to a new file) you can use the "-i" parameter to sed like that:
sed -i 's/...$//' file
If you need to remove more than three characters at the end of the line and don't want to mess around with the big amount of dots then, just use this way:
sed -i 's/.\{3\}$//' file
and replace the 3 in the curly brackets with whatever number you need.
sed -i 's/...$//' file
If you need to remove more than three characters at the end of the line and don't want to mess around with the big amount of dots then, just use this way:
sed -i 's/.\{3\}$//' file
and replace the 3 in the curly brackets with whatever number you need.
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Thank you. Is there a way to do this in xemacs?
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Hi agriesser, woolmilkporc:
I did not see your post before. Thank you.
I did not see your post before. Thank you.
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