[X-Unix] Remove last ten lines of files

[David Ledger]

>From: Eugene Lee <list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net>
>On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:48:30AM +0100, Kuestner, Bjoern wrote:
>:
>: > echo '1,$-10p;q' | tr ";" "\n" | ed YOURFILE
>:
>: The mystery deepens. (c:
>:
>: I kinda feel like my wife right now when she looks at my screen and
>: thinks I am doing total magic.
>
>Or shorten the command to:
>
>	echo $'1,$-10p\nq' | ed YOURFILE

Unfortunately, this is shell dependent.  Some shells put out 
backslash n for single quoted '\n'.  Works in Apple's bash and ksh 
built for OSX.  ksh doesn't need the leading '$'.

David


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