OT: scripting, removing trailing ^L

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
> At 12:00P Fri Dec 23 2005, Bob Stockler wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
Well, we don't know if a ^L can exist legitimately elsewhere in the
file. Certainly, any raster images could contain ^L's. So a blanket
removal of all such characters may not be appropriate.


Jim 
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