On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 14:56:00 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > A bit of a hack but I believe posix compliant would be: > > sed '1,/^$/d;/^-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----$/,$d' < "$inreldest" | tr '\n' > '\a' | sed 's/\a$//' | tr '\a' '\n' > "$reldest" > > So simply replace all newlines with bells, then delete the last bell > and then convert the bells back to newlines. I sure can't imagine the > Release file contains any bell characters. Could use escape instead > if prefered. > > Pretty awful compared to the head -c -1 option, but maybe not that bad. > Thanks, that looks like it should work :)
Cheers, Julien
