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From: data@buhub (Mark Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: How to eliminate entire lines with sed
Summary: I need to delete <x> lines from the beginnning of a file...
Keywords: remove lines, sed
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.070712.17725@bradley.bradley.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 91 07:07:12 GMT
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Organization: Bradley University
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I'm having a minor problem.  I want to use a shell script that I have in my
.profile to do some things dealing with mail.  I use checkmail and a custom
script that keeps track of the number of new messages.  When I log in, it
tells me how many NEW messages I have by subtracting the number of lines
returned from the Checkmail /usr/mail/data | wc -l by the number in the
.mailchk file I create (it only contains a single number).
When I display the messages in my mailbox, I'd like to remove the first "x"
lines from the listing.  Any suggestions?

SUmmary:  WHat I want to do is pass the number in the .mailchk file and delete
that number of lines from the beginning of my input by using sed.

Mark hall
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