Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:21:30 +0000 From: Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.org> To: Dru <dlavigne6@sympatico.ca>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing the first 10 lines of a file Message-ID: <200401091721.31104.znerd@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040109110400.G610@genisis.domain.org> References: <20040109110400.G610@genisis.domain.org>
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You could do something like this:
tail -n `echo \`wc -l in\` | awk '{print $1 " - 10" }' | bc` in > out
where 'in' is the name of the input file and 'out' the name of the generated
file... but I'm sure there's probably a nicer and shorter way :-)
Ernst
On Friday 09 January 2004 16:07, Dru wrote:
> 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.
>
> Anyone know of a quick way to do this?
>
> Dru
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