tail tip to Fortune?

Andrew L. Gould algould at datawok.com
Sat Jan 10 17:38:47 PST 2004


On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Jan 09), Dru said:
> > I remember coming across a trick (which I can't find now) which
> > allowed you to page all of a file, except for the first 10 lines. I
> > think it used a combo of head and tail to achieve this. I can't just
> > use tail as the length of the file varies whereas the amount I don't
> > want to see doesn't.
>
> tail +11 myfile

Could we get this one into the Fortune tips that appear at user login?

Andrew Gould



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