How to Remove the Last 2 Lines of a Very Large File

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Published on 2010-04-05T23:25:01Z Indexed on 2010/04/05 23:33 UTC
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I have a very large file ~400G, and I need to remove the last 2 lines from it. I tried to use sed, but it ran for hours before I gave up. Is there a quick way of doing this, or am I stuck with sed?

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