Removes all events preceeding a given year from an .ics calendar file (the kind you can find e.g. in a Radicale-based CalDAV server).

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Usage:

./trim_ical.sh -y year -i input_file -o output_file [-p preceding_file] [-d] # removes all events starting before the year 2016 from the calendar stored in Personal.ics file