OT: scripting, removing trailing ^L

[Barry Wiseman]

William James McEachran wrote:
> Slightly off-topic.
> The data comes from filePro, some of it passes thru 'gnuplot', and in
> the end the gnuplot graph is incorporated into the filepro output form.
> The whole thing then is converted with 'pcl6'/ghostpcl into a PDF file
> Result, a PDF file with data & a graph.
> 
> gnuplot adds an unneed "^L" to the end of the graph pcl file. I've got
> to come up with a way to remove just this one character at the end of the
> file.  I've got a mental block on removing just the final character.
> 
> sed? awk?

dd if=sourcefile of=destfile bs=`expr \`wc -c sourcefile | cut -c1-7\` - 
1` count=1

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