Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 22:06:15 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a technical how to Message-ID: <3FD54A37.8050503@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <200312090259.23677@harrymail> References: <20031209015125.74977.qmail@web14806.mail.yahoo.com> <200312090259.23677@harrymail>
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Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: >On Tuesday 09 December 2003 02:51, homeyra g wrote: > > >>So, I hope this is the right address for this type of >>question. If not would you please forward this and/or >>let me know the correct address. >> >>Thanks, >> >>Here is the question: How to truncate a file from the >>begining to a certain point in the file? >> >> > >Have a look at sed. Sorry can't help with syntax and I'm sure one can also do >the same with perl or awk or whatever. But for the first, man (1) sed will >help with 'cat yourfile | sed -youroptions' e.g. > >You can also use vi (if it's a regular textfile with less than hundreds of >megs), find your endpoint with e.g "/YourEndKeyWord" and do in instruction >mode a "dG", after that save. > >-Harry > > And if you use PHP, you could do a fairly easy script also, via the CLI. Lots of shell scripting stuff out there, isn't there? KDK
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