Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LH> I am trying to write a script and I need to remove the top 3 lines of a LH> file. I thought tail would be the tool for the job. LH> LH> The script is: LH> LH> enscript -1 -r -M Letter -p outputfile $1 LH> LH> I need tail to take off the top 3 lines of $1
Probably tail +3 $1 | enscript -1r -M Letter -p outputfile Or, failing that: tail +3 $1 > tmpfile enscript -1r -M Letter -p outputfile tmpfile Often, programs will accept '-' as a command-line parameter in place of a file name to mean "standard input". -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
