On Tuesday 29 June 2004 01:07 pm, Bill Moran wrote: > Gerard Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When editing php files, via the command line, there is a newline > > character after the closing ?> > > Im looking for a command that would trim files, so that I can append it > > to the find command. > > > > find ./ -name '*.php' -exec SOME_COMMAND {} \; > > If you're absolutely sure of the number of characters you're removing from > the end of the file, you could use truncate(1). > > Otherwise, you'll probably want sed or perl to check that it's not removing > important characters.
Trying to use truncate is not working on my end. Does anyone see a syntax error with it??? Ran on 5.2.1-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD. $ pwd /usr/home/gsam $ ls ~/z.php /home/gsam/z.php $ truncate -r ~/z.php usage: truncate [-c] -s [+|-]size[K|M|G] file ... truncate [-c] -r rfile file ... I tried $ truncate -r rfile ~/z.php but that didn't work either. Thanks _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"