Re: unhead

We can also try clobbering the particular lines you don't want.
Fr'instance for all but the first 5 lines

perl -pe '$_=""if$.<=5'

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 02:17, Jose Alves de Castro wrote:
> You're probably all familiar with the commands "head" and "tail", which
>  let you extract the first or the last N lines of input or a file...
> 
> Imagine you want to print a file, but without the first N lines...
> 
> For N=1, one possibility would be:
> 
> print if $. - 1;
> 
> For any N, maybe this:
> 
> print if ($N+1)..0;
> 
> Any thoughts? Any other ideas? What would be the best way to do this?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> jac
>  
-- 
Jasvir Nagra
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~jas

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