in reply to Re: truncate only a last blank line
in thread truncate only a last blank line

OT: I once had need to remove the first line from a file and did it with this shell script... 
# this once had a purpose... 
LINES=$(wc -l $1 | awk '{print $1}')
tail -$(echo $LINES - 1 | bc -l) $1

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