[Cialug] Text file munging

[David Champion]

Oh... missed the part where the # of lines varies. Sorry. :(

-dc

David Champion wrote:
> 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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