The best thing to do would be something like:
vi filename
:1,5d
:x!

That would do the trick.
Also this:
*****************************************************************************

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict
my $ind=1;
 open FILE1,"/file1/path"||die  "Cannot open file1:$!\n";
 open FILE2,">/file2/path"||die "Cannot open file2:$!\n";

# Skip 5 lines

for($ind=1;$ind<=5;$ind++) { <FILE1>; }

# copy files
 while (<FILE1>) { print FILE2 $_; }
 print "I'm all done\n";
************************************************************************************

On 2003.09.14 12:14, Tim Gorman wrote:
sed '6,$p' filename > new-filename

on 9/14/03 7:49 AM, Oracle DBA at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I want to remove the first 5 lines of the text from
> unix text file. Is there a command to do it without
> opening a file manually? (I don't want to use (DD
> command)
>
> For example,
> ==============
> 1 to be removed
> 2 to be removed
> 3 to be removed
> 4 to be removed
> 5 to be removed
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> sssssssssssssssss
> eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
> ==============
>
> Any help would be really appreciated.
> TIA
> Sami
>
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