Gustin Johnson wrote:
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> I have a client who has mysteriously damaged a whole bunch of files.
> Basically, there are 2300 files in a directory and sub-directories,
> which are comma delimited. Somehow a bunch of files had an extra comma
> added at the end of some lines. What I need to do is to remove double
> commas ",," from the _end_ of some lines in each file (there are double
> commas in the middle of the line that must be untouched).
>
> This screams sed to me, but I am missing something, since I cannot seem
> to find the regex incantation that will find two commas at the end only.
>
> It seemed simple, but then I am used to vim syntax (:%s/,,$/,/g), which
> normally also works in sed for me.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
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Gustin,
Try this...
http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/sed1line.txt
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