Display Entire File Except for First 5 Lines 1

[Michael42]

Hello,

On a Sun Solaris 8 system how can I display the contents of a text file except for the first 5 lines?

The file size varies but is usually less than 300 lines. Ideally I will put this in a Bourne shell script.

Thanks,

Michael42

 

[p5wizard]

Try

tail +6 <filename>

or

awk 'NR>5' <filename>

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[Michael42]

p5wizard,

Perfect!

Thanks for posting,

Michael42

 

[Michael42]

One more related question on this please...

How can I display the contents of a text file except for the last 3 lines?

I have been playing with the head and tail commands but still don't quite have it.

Thanks,

Michael42

 

[TonyGroves]

[tt]head -n -3 filename[/tt]

 

[p5wizard]

I don't think head or tail can do this "all but last three" without first reversing the file, tail +4, reversing again. (at least not on AIX)

awk can do:

awk '{
if (NR>3) print one;
one=two
two=three
three=$0
}' filename

This is a bad design - the 3 shouldn't be hardcoded, and then using an array would be better than three individual variables, but I guess you get the idea from this.


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[Ygor]

Try...
[tt] awk -v n=3 'NR>n{print a[NR%n]}{a[NR%n]=$0}' file1[/tt]

 

[TonyGroves]

Maybe I didn't shout loud enough:
[tt]
head -n -3 filename
[/tt]

 

[Ygor]

I think that negative values for the -n option are only for GNU head. The OP has stated that he is using Sun Solaris 8 where this feature is not available.

 

[TonyGroves]

Ok, fair enough.

 

[feherke]

Hi

I think that negative values for the -n option are only for GNU head.

Yes, and only for the new [tt]head[/tt] from coreutils package. Old [tt]head[/tt] commands from textutils did not know it.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/