OT: scripting, removing trailing ^L

[Bob Stockler]

William James McEachran wrote (on Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:19:16AM -0500):

| 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?

How about tr?

  tr -d '\014' <file1 >file2

Bob

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