cut delimiter and save

Shell Programming and Scripting
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i have list of names in a text file and I wanted to delete the commas en every line.

for example: inside the text is a list of names in it with commas after each line. I wanted to delete these commas. which command must I execute for this?

unix,
dale,
shawn,
aaron,
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sed 's/,[ \t]*$//' file > temp
mv temp file
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thanks for the fast reply. didn't work. what's temp by the way?

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temp is a temporary file which stores the edited file. What command did you run? If you don't want to use a temporary file explicitly, try:

echo -e '%s/,[ \t]*$//\nx'|ex file
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Try like..

sed -e 's/\(.*\),/\1/' test1.txt