On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 05:59:41PM -0500, Benjamin Holzman wrote:
> Hmm. Perhaps as a one-liner to remove one character from the end of every
> line in a bunch of files?
> 
>       $ perl -pli -e chop FILES

The autochomp nature of -l confuses the example (took me a sec to
realize that was involved).  Its also not obviously useful.

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