Re: unhead
[email protected] (Randal L. Schwartz)
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>>>>> "Jose" == Jose Alves de Castro <[email protected]> writes: Jose> You're probably all familiar with the commands "head" and "tail", which Jose> let you extract the first or the last N lines of input or a file... Jose> Imagine you want to print a file, but without the first N lines... Jose> For N=1, one possibility would be: Jose> print if $. - 1; Jose> For any N, maybe this: Jose> print if ($N+1)..0; Jose> Any thoughts? Any other ideas? What would be the best way to do this? perl -ne 'print unless 1..5' -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!