[lug] delete last character of every line

[Rick Casey]

 You said: <begin> Shannon Johnston<end>
> Once again, I'm stuck with a little problem.
> I've got a list of 6000 ip addresses in a text file, all of them have a
> trailing ".". I need to get rid of that before it becomes useful.
>
> Does anybody know how to do that? Either in vi or as a sed command?

In vi, at command line:

%s/.$//g

ought to do it...

rick