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Re: [PLUG] not head, not tail, but what?
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Do a PERL one-liner that holds a counter, at the fourth line it starts
printing all of the input passed to it.
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?
>
> Is there an easy way to do this? To just chop off the first n lines
> from a file? It would be nice to do this without having to count the
> number of lines in the file first.
>
> I know this kind of utility would be easy to write, but it feels like
> it should already exist...
>
>
> Thanks,
> Kyle
>
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