How to remove a character at the end of each line in unix

Question

I would like to remove comma , at the end of each line in my file. How can I do it other than using substring function in awk. please suggest me.Thanks

Sample Input

        SUPPLIER_PROC_ID BIGINT NOT NULL,
        BTCH_NBR INTEGER NOT NULL,
        RX_BTCH_SUPPLIER_SEQ_NBR INTEGER NOT NULL,
        CORRN_ID INTEGER NOT NULL,
        RX_CNT BYTEINT NOT NULL,
        DATA_TYP_CD BYTEINT NOT NULL,
        DATA_PD_CD BYTEINT NOT NULL,
        CYC_DT DATE NOT NULL,
        BASE_DT DATE NOT NULL,
        DATA_LOAD_DT DATE NOT NULL,
        DATA_DT DATE NOT NULL,
        SUPPLIER_DATA_SRC_CD BYTEINT NOT NULL,
        RX_CHNL_CD BYTEINT NOT NULL,
        MP_IMS_ID INTEGER NOT NULL,
        MP_LOC_ID NUMERIC(3,0),
        MP_IMS_ID_ACTN_CD BYTEINT NOT NULL,
        NPI_ID BIGINT,

Answer 1

Try doing this :

awk '{print substr($0, 1, length($0)-1)}' file.txt

This is more generic than just removing the final comma but any last character

If you'd want to only remove the last comma with awk :

awk '{gsub(/,$/,""); print}' file.txt