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Old 11-02-2015
Search 2 days older file and then delete last 10 lines
I want to search 2 day older file and then delete last 10 line of that file.
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Old 11-02-2015
Use a combination of find (with option -mtime) and sed

Let us know what you could come up with.
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man head:
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-n, --lines=[-]K
print the first K lines instead of the first 10; with the leading '-', print all but the last K lines of each file
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