[X-Unix] Remove last ten lines of files

[Kuestner, Bjoern]

Hi Stroller,

>I'm pretty sure this can be done using `sed`, but my research his 
>morning indicates it's tricky. 

Thanks just for that.

I did feel a little silly when the task was so easily described, and the
tools that come with any *nix-type OS are typically ideal for such file
manipulation, but I could not come up with anything that I would consider
elegant.

>      #!/usr/bin/sed -nf
>      1! {; H; g; }
>      1,10 !s/[^\n]*\n//
>      $p
>      h

I will look into this. These few lines use more of sed than I ever have. So
that will take a while.

>The full page is available here 
><http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/sed/sed_26.html> - you may find the 
>2nd example useful, also.

Thanks. Bookmarked this one immediately.

>My question is: do you REALLY want to do this..? 

Yes. Thanks for your considerations. But it's my personal e-mail going out,
nobody else's and it's also for just one recipient. So the deals of
communication are one-on-one and very clear and not as complicated as you
rightfully commented that they might be. It's just for technical reasons
that are beyond my control why such a setup is desirable.

On the other side I hope to learn a couple of things along the way of doing
this. (Which has already happened. (c:)

Bjorn


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