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    1. Today, I needed to script removing the last couple lines of a file from the shell. The head command shipped by macOS doesn't support -n -2 But their tail command totally supports -n +3 tac myfile.txt | tail -n +3 |tac
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    Ugh. I don't actually have 'tac' by default on macOS.
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      Sigh. time for the trivial perl script.
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        On second thought. cat file.txt | sed '$d'| sed '$d' is inelegant but unambiguous.
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