Re: [PLUG] not head, not tail, but what?

[Mark Schonbach <mark@markbach.com>]

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On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Kyle R . Burton wrote:

> Is there a standard utility out there that can print out all the lines
> from a file except the first n?
>
> Head can get you the first n, tail can get you the last n.  Is there
> something that can get you m-n?

tail +n filename

from man tail:
    If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines) is a `+',
    print beginning with the Nth item from the start of each file,
    otherwise, print the last N items in the file.

[pts/6] [3:48pm] [mark@helios]
[~] > cat testfile
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20

[pts/6] [3:48pm] [mark@helios]
[~] > tail +5 testfile
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20


Mark Schonbach
http://www.markbach.com/
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