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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