>>>>> "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'

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