Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:20:50 -0500 (EST) From: Dru <dlavigne6@sympatico.ca> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing the first 10 lines of a file Message-ID: <20040109112034.I610@genisis.domain.org> In-Reply-To: <20040109161259.GC4168@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20040109110400.G610@genisis.domain.org> <20040109161259.GC4168@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 09), Dru said: > > I remember coming across a trick (which I can't find now) which > > allowed you to page all of a file, except for the first 10 lines. I > > think it used a combo of head and tail to achieve this. I can't just > > use tail as the length of the file varies whereas the amount I don't > > want to see doesn't. > > tail +11 myfile Well, that was certainly easy enough! Thanks. Dru
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