Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:04:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: fbsd-questions@trini0.org (Gerard Samuel) Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Subject: Re: Means of trimming files Message-ID: <200406292005.i5TK5nZ18158@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200406291545.40422.fbsd-questions@trini0.org> from "Gerard Samuel" at Jun 29, 2004 03:45:40 PM
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> On Tuesday 29 June 2004 01:07 pm, Bill Moran wrote:
> > Gerard Samuel <fbsd-questions@trini0.org> 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.
Well is 'rfile' the exact length you want and is it always going to
be exactly a newline character shorter than z.php?
Maybe you want something more like 'truncate -s -1 z.php'
presuming it is always just one newline character at the end.
Do you need to take the character only from the last line of the file or
from any line in the file that has it?
If it is from any line, check out tr(1).
tr -d "\n" < z.php > z.php-clean
rm z.php
mv z.php-clean z.php
Otherwise, I would be inclined to break out perl.
////jerry
> Thanks
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