sci3ntist
I dont know whatw wrong with the script you wrote on my side it not working
I used the dd command to trim one byte from thr file tail and it solved the
issue  as in my case i always at the end

Thanks

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:47 PM, sci3ntist <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> X=$(cat yourfile.txt)
> Y=${#X}
> ((Y-8))
> sed -n "1,${Y}p" yourfile.txt > newfile.txt
>
> check this.
>
>
> On May 27, 8:32 am, Husam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello Joluggers
> > I need help in the following case a text file that ends with (in hex)
> 0A00,
> > i want to remove it
> > what is the easiest way
> >
> > i am trying sed 's/\(.*\)[\r]/\1//' to detect the last match and replace
> it
> > with null, but got stuck in this ,,, Help
> >
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Husam Habannakeh
> > +971 5055 164 89 Dubai
> > +962 777 656 086 Amman
> > +966 5611 54 798 Riyadh
> > Sent from Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
> >
>


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