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Remove last line from files recursively

Used this command recently to remove the trailing ?> from all the files in a php project, which has having some unnecessary whitespace issues. Obviously, change *.php to whatever you'd like.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find . -name "*.php" -type f -exec sed -i "\$d" '{}' \;

tedkulp · 2010-12-09 16:42:22 2

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