On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:58:03 -0000, "Rob Bradford"
<rob.polymnia@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Hi.
>
>
>I have a issue with a file from an old legacy (HP3000) system. When the
file
>is transfered by FTP onto a Unix server the 3000's FTP process pads the
>lines to a fixed length. This seems to be a function of the 3000's FTP
>implementation. ie: It picks up a fo;e of say 1674012 bytes and sends
>1709094 bytes for example!
>
>Anyway to cut a long story short, how do I chop each and every line back
to
>the last no white_space character? Each of the extended lines has a LF
that
>I need to keep, or replace it in the new end-of line opsition. I know
AWK
>should be the solution but where do I start?
>
>Any pointers would be appreciated.
>
>Rob.B
{
sub(/[[:blank:]]+$/,"")
print
}
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