[Cialug] Text file munging

[David Champion]

Write a script to loop thru the files, do a:

head -n -2 oldfile > newfile

-dc

Dave Weis wrote:
> I have a bunch of individual email messages from mail.app that have been 
> disassociated from their mailbox. I have tried copying them into the 
> messages folder but they don't go because of two lines in the plist at the 
> end. I need to remove
>          <key>remote-id</key>
>          <string>4294</string>
> from 20,000 files. The number varies and the location at the end of the 
> file can move a few lines at a time. I've tried my regex magic on it but 
> don't have enough to get it working. Any help?
>
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