Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 04:02:56 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tail tip to Fortune? Message-ID: <200401110402.56239.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <20040111075511.GB58914@users.munk.nu> References: <200401101939.44526.algould@datawok.com> <200401110001.22135.algould@datawok.com> <20040111075511.GB58914@users.munk.nu>
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On Sunday 11 January 2004 01:55 am, Jez Hancock wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:01:22AM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Saturday 10 January 2004 07:39 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > Could we get this one into the Fortune tips that appear at user login? > > > > > > Andrew Gould > > > > Please disregard -- I figured out how to add my own fortune file. > > FWIW you can do something like this: > > fortune -m tail freebsd-tips > > to display all tips in the freebsd-tips fortune file that contain > 'tail'. > > As it turns out there is this tip: > > To see the last 10 lines of a long file, use "tail filename". To see the > first 10 lines, use "head filename". > -- Dru <genesis@istar.ca> > > which is almost what you're asking about :P Thanks. Andrew Gould
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