[Cialug] Text file munging

[chris]

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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?
> 

If I understand what you need this may work, if not tell me w where I went wrong and I'll fix it.

perl -p -i -e 's/<(key|string)>.+<\/(key|string)>//' *


That'll *modify the original file* in place and leave a blank line where any

<key>.+</key>
<string>.+</string>

are found.

crr
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