Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I use gawk or some other program to remove a number of lines > from a text file. Initially, I only need to delete the top 10 lines > from a file but it might be useful to know how to delete lines from any > part of the file. The top 10 lines from each of these files vary in > what they may contain so I need to indiscriminately delete them. I > figured gawk is what I would need to use to perform this task but if > someone ones of something else that might do this that would be fine > too.
Well, someone already mentioned sed, but why not just do: tail +11 < infile > outfile (The "+" tells tail to start printing things at line 11; to get the last 11 lines you'd use "tail -11") For similarly removing the end of a file, see "head".
