[Discuss] SED question

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 10/04/2011 11:35 AM, Chandler, Scott wrote:
> I've got a script running a sed command that I need help interpreting. The line is "sed '$d' file1.txt > file2.txt".
>
> I understand that sed '$d' file1.txt removes the last line from the file but will the resultant file (file2.txt) contain only the last line from file1.txt or will it contain everything *except* the last line from file1.txt?
>
This will remove the last line of the file.

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