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in thread How can I grab the last 2 lines of a file?

Hi Monks!
I came across this post and it seems very helpful to a snippet of code i am trying to put together...Actually, I am interested in exactly the same thing as requested here, with the exception of removing these N (e.g. 2) lines from the file...It this possible?
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Re^4: How can I grab the last 2 lines of a file? (truncate)
by LanX (Saint) on Sep 20, 2014 at 13:53 UTC
    > removing these N (e.g. 2) lines from the file...It this possible?

    This it! See truncate.

    But you need to know the start of the lines to be dropped (see tell ), so the same techniques apply like described in this thread.

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    Of course much easier if the length of the lines to be skipped are already known.

    Cheers Rolf

    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

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