Tjabo Kloppenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes I want to pipe something into "cut" and get everything except > the last character. Or the last 2 characters. > I could use perl for that, but cut is smaller and should do the job, too.
FWIW, you can do this with sed. $ echo foo | sed 's/.$//' fo $ echo foo | sed 's/..$//' f paul _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
