Delete first row last column

susau_79 · August 21, 2009, 4:45am

Hi All,
I am having following file and I want to delete 1 row last column.

Current File Content:

procedure test421 put_line
procedure test321 test421
procedure test521 test321
procedure test621 test521

procedure test421
procedure test321 test421
procedure test521 test321
procedure test621 test521

With best wishes,
-Saurabh

ranjithpr · August 21, 2009, 4:51am

Try this,

awk 'NR==1 {$NF=""}1' file

Regards,

Ranjith

skmdu · August 22, 2009, 3:35am

Hope this works,

$cat data
procedure test421 put_line
procedure test321 test421
procedure test521 test321
procedure test621 test521

$sed "1s/$.* $$[a-zA-Z0-9_]*$$/\1/g" data
procedure test421
procedure test321 test421
procedure test521 test321
procedure test621 test521

durden_tyler · August 22, 2009, 3:48pm

perl -lne '@x=split; $x[$#x]="" if $.==1; print "@x"' file

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