Removing a comma at the end of a line

[maxcrook]

I have numerical data in a file

12345678901,

How can I remove the , at the end of the line ?

I have tried

sed 's/,/d' filename > filename2
but it returns a file of 0bytes !

 

[MikeLacey]

that's deleting every line where there's a comma....

try something like

sed 's/,$//' filename > filename2

the $ should mean that only commas at the *end* of a line are removed. Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
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[maxcrook]

Thanks Mike I finally did it by

sed 's/,/ / filename > filename2

Thanks, I have tried your way as well, works both ways, but yours is safer !

 

[MikeLacey]

No problem Max

I think you're replacing the comma with a space there, is that what you meant to do? Mike
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