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Re: cut (coreutils) 4.5.8 / missing feature
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: cut (coreutils) 4.5.8 / missing feature |
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Thu, 08 Jan 2004 09:39:39 -0500 |
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Tjabo Kloppenburg <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sometimes I want to pipe something into "cut" and get everything except
> the last character. Or the last 2 characters.
> I could use perl for that, but cut is smaller and should do the job, too.
FWIW, you can do this with sed.
$ echo foo | sed 's/.$//'
fo
$ echo foo | sed 's/..$//'
f
paul