in reply to delete last CR and LF from txt

If you know the crlf will always be there: 

perl -E"$s=-s $ARGV[ 0 ]; truncate( $ARGV[0], $s-2 ) or die $!" junk.d
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Re^2: delete last CR and LF from txt
by bot403 (Beadle) on Feb 22, 2010 at 23:00 UTC
    Even if you dont know its there you can seek to the last 2 bytes and read them and compare them to CR/LF. If they are indeed a CR/LF then truncate, else leave it alone. Its not quite a one-liner but still tiny.
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