Out of control mailbox

[Ted Gould]

On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 12:10 -0500, Alex Dean wrote:
> On Jul 24, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Joe wrote:
> > How can I remove from line 0 to line 1000000 (as an example) from the
> > file? Or, how can I export from line 1000001 to the end in a new file
> > (which I could then replace the current mailbox file with)? I have no
> > idea how to accomplish either.
>
> Try split.  'man split'  It will break 1 file into many, and you can  
> give it criteria like 'split after X lines'...

You can also play with "head" and "tail".  They'll give you the first
part or last part of a file.  You can specify the number of lines that
you want them to give.  "wc -l" will give you the total number of lines
in a file.

		--Ted

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