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# 8  
Old 04-22-2014
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Originally Posted by Schubi
Unfortunately I'm forced to do this on OSX Mavericks 10.9 and it looks like the -i option in sed is handled differently
[..]
@Scrutinizer: The loop also works when I remove .bak:
Code:
for file in ~/Library/Calendars/*.calendar/Events/*.ics
do
  [ -f "$file" ] || continue
  sed -i "" -e '/^DTSTART/ba' -e'/^DTEND/ba' -e 'p;d' -e :a -e 's/..\(.\)$/00\1/' "$file"
done

The code is for BSD sed which is used on OSX. You can use it without .bak, but this is what the man page says:

Code:
     -i extension
             Edit files in-place, saving backups with the specified extension.  If a zero-length extension is given, no backup will be
             saved.  It is not recommended to give a zero-length extension when in-place editing files, as you risk corruption or partial
             content in situations where disk space is exhausted, etc.

The input should be a file that ends in '\r\n' and the output is also in this format...
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# 9  
Old 04-23-2014
Thanks for all the help and explanation! Much appreciated!
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