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From: tkevans@oss670.UUCP (Tim Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: need help on unix
Message-ID: <32@oss670.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 91 15:51:14 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.004109.21966@unixg.ubc.ca>
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Organization: Social Security Admin., Baltimore/Washington
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wangf@unixg.ubc.ca (Frank Wang) writes:

>Does anyone out there know how to delete the first few lines or the last 
>few lines from a file without evoke a editor?  The reason is the file is
>too large to be edited.  

Deleting First Few Lines:

Use 'tail -nnn' (where 'nnn' is the number of lines in the file *minus* the
number of lines at the beginning you want to delete), with output re-
directed to another file.

Deleting Last Few Lines:

Use 'head' instead of tail

Bad News:

Unfortunately, not all UNIX's have both 'head' and 'tail'
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