Means of trimming files

[Gerard Samuel]

On Tuesday 29 June 2004 01:07 pm, Bill Moran wrote:
> Gerard Samuel <fbsd-questions at trini0.org> wrote:
> > When editing php files, via the command line, there is a newline
> > character after the closing ?>
> > Im looking for a command that would trim files, so that I can append it
> > to the find command.
> >
> > find ./ -name '*.php' -exec SOME_COMMAND {} \;
>
> If you're absolutely sure of the number of characters you're removing from
> the end of the file, you could use truncate(1).
>
> Otherwise, you'll probably want sed or perl to check that it's not removing
> important characters.

Thanks.  I'll see what I can come up with...