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

The best thing to do would be something like: vi filename
:1,5d
:x!

That would do the trick.
Also this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict
my $ind=1;
  open FILE1,"/file1/path"||die "Cannot open file1:$!\n";   open FILE2,">/file2/path"||die "Cannot open file2:$!\n";

# Skip 5 lines

  for($ind=1;$ind<=5;$ind++) { <FILE1>; }

# copy files
  while (<FILE1>) { print FILE2 $_; }
  print "I'm all done\n";

On 2003.09.14 12:14, Tim Gorman wrote:
> 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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