Re: Unix- How to remove the first few lines(N) in a file without

sed '6,$p' filename > new-filename

on 9/14/03 7:49 AM, Oracle DBA at sami_resume_at_yahoo.com wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I want to remove the first 5 lines of the text from
> unix text file. Is there a command to do it without
> opening a file manually? (I don't want to use (DD
> command)
>
> For example,
> ==============
> 1 to be removed
> 2 to be removed
> 3 to be removed
> 4 to be removed
> 5 to be removed
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> sssssssssssssssss
> eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
> ==============
>
> Any help would be really appreciated.
> TIA
> Sami
>
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