Re: [SLE] Sed syntax help

* Thomas Jones (thomas.jones@linux-howtos.com) [031004 09:46]:

What is the correct syntax for sed to delete the last 10 lines of a file?

You would need to know to know how many records are in the input to do that with sed. E.g., sed -e '$-10,$d' won't work since $ is defined until the EOF. You'll have to use awk for that. -- -ckm