On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 09:53:00AM +0200, Erez D wrote:
> hi
> 
> head -5 <file> will give me the first 5 lines of file.
> 
> i'm looking for somthing that will give me everything but the first 5 lines.
> 
> i know i can get the lines with 'wc -l' , then substract 5, and then use
> tail.
> is there an unhead util that does that for me ?

tail -n +6
('tail +6' used to work, but newer GNU tail requires '-n')
or
awk 'NR > 5'
-- 
Didi


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