Remove last character from each line in a text file

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I have a 550 lines written .txt file. I want to take out the last character from every line. Thre is also a space between each line that I want to remove. Can anyone tell me the code or script how to go on about doing so?

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Remove last character from each line in a text file

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Hello,

Removing last character from each line can be done easily using the following C program. Just compile and run:

int main(int argc, char * argv[])

{

    FILE * InputFile;

    off_t position;

        int charsToDelete;

 

    if ((InputFile = fopen(argv[1],"r+")) == NULL)

    {

            printf("tdes: file not found: %sn",argv[1]);

    }

    else

    {

                charsToDelete = 5;

        fseeko(InputFile,-charsToDelete,SEEK_END);

        position = ftello(InputFile);

        printf("Pos: %dn",(int)position);

        int i;

        //for(i = 0;i < charsToDelete;i++)

        //{

        //  putc(InputFile,'b');

        //}

    }

    fclose(InputFile);

    return 0;

}

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