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Yarka

Yarka

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Jan 14, 2007
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Hi
How I can eliminate 2000 first lines of a file?
Thanks.
 
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Hi

Code: 
sed -i '1,2000d' /the/file
Needs GNU [tt]sed[/tt].

Or with any tool, using two files.
Code: 
sed '1,2000d' /input/file > /output/file

[gray]# or[/gray]

awk 'NR>2000' /input/file > /output/file

[gray]# or[/gray]

tail +2001 /input/file > /output/file

Feherke.
 
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Or you vi the file and then give the commands

:1,2000d[enter]
:wq[enter]


HTH,

p5wizard
 
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