On Nov 28, 2007 3:40 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Alan Cox wrote: > >> head -n 3 file;who;tail -n $(echo "$(wc -l file | cut -d " " -f 1) -3" |bc) file > > > > ( head -n3 file; who; tail +3 file) > newfile 2> errors > > > > Much easier ;) > > > I think you need to change "tail +3" to "tail -n +3" or tail will > treat +3 as a file name. > > > Mikkel > -- No, that is the correct syntax. No -n when telling tail to start at the "N"th line. tail -n 5 will give you the last five lines tail +5 will start at the fifth line (according to man pages, so doesn't skip 5 lines - I tested it earlier but didn't pay close enough attention - not in Linux now so can't test right now) and give you the rest of the file Jacques B.
