Re: "output all but last N lines" command?

[Adam Aube]

William Ballard wrote:

> You can specify "tail -n+5" to output "all but the first 5 lines".
> But "head" has no such option to output "all but the last N lines."

Perhaps you missed this from the head man page:

-n, --lines=[-]N
            print  the first N lines instead of the first 10; with the lead-
            ing `-', print all but the last N lines of each file

Adam



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