[ale] Sed/Awk/PERL question

[Chris Fowler]

sed 's/;\r\n/\r\n' < file1 > new_file

Just off the top of my head.....

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 10:10 -0500, Bob Kruger wrote:
> All;
> 
> I have a 1.3GB text file that has multiple fields separated by semicolons.  Format follows:
> 
> field1;field2;field3;...field24;
> .
> .
> .
> field1;field2;field3;...field24;
> 
> I need a quick and dirty method to delete the last semicolon.
> 
> Any ideas or thoughts?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
> 
> V/r
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
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