Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Better mention dd here as an aside, else with just head and tail, how
> is one to 'output all but the first 906 bytes of a file'?

You can use tail like this:

  tail -c +907

Note that it's 907, not 906.
Think of it not as a byte count, but rather
as the 1-based index of the first byte to copy.


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