[X-Unix] Remove last ten lines of files

[David Ledger]

>From: Xavier Noria <fxn at hashref.com>
>On Jan 9, 2004, at 6:45 AM, David Ledger wrote:
>>>  From: Eugene Lee <list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net>
>>>  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 '$'.
>
>What's the leading $ for?

Without the '$' the '\n' gets echo'd as a '\' and an 'n' rather than 
a newline.  This is a bash special.

David


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