That's good. Or keep the lines at the top and type 99999 dd

Deletes 99999 lines in vi

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Peter Cavender wrote:

> 1) use an editor to see how many of the lines at the top of the file you
> want to keep, say for example 30
> 2) # head -n 30 mail_file_name > foo
> 3) # mv -f foo mail_file_name
> 
> 
> --Pete
> 
> 
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote:
> 
> > the problem is, what is the better text editor I can use rather than vi,
> > since the attachement has thousands of lines.....
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "kh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:54 AM
> > Subject: Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox
> > 
> > 
> > > My instructions were to delete the 12 MB email, not every file in the
> > > Mailrdir/new
> > >
> > > Just edit Maildir/new/file with a text editor and remove the attachment.
> > >
> > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote:
> > >
> > > > there are other emails in the mailbox, I do wish to do is that, just to
> > > > delete the attachement, not the entire mailbox....
> > > > ckh :)
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: "kh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:17 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: How to remove a email from a mailbox
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > cd /home/user/Maildir/new
> > > > >
> > > > > Delete the file that is 12 MB
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, kh wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Is it possible to remove a email from a user mailbox? because I have
> > a
> > > > email with about 12M of attachement in the mailbox.
> > > > > > thanks
> > > > > > ckh :)
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > 
> 
> 

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