Removing last blank line

Question

There is a para break at the end of my .csv file. I tried to remove the blank line that is at the end of the file using the following command.

sed -i '/^$/d' combined.csv 

But it does not work and a blank line is still there. I can remove the last line using the following command.

sed -i '$d' combined.csv 

But is it possible to check if the last line is really empty before removing it?

Update:

I am using the following command to check if each line start with a number.

sed -i '1s/^[^0-9]*//' combined.csv 

This checks only for the first line and not the rest of the lines. How do I make it check all the lines in the file? This might solve my problem.

Answer 1

Try ${/^$/d;} this will only match an empty line if it is the last line of the file.

Update: for your second question, just remove the 1 before the s, i.e.: sed -i 's/^[^0-9]*//' combined.csv