tail tip to Fortune?

Andrew L. Gould algould at datawok.com
Sat Jan 10 22:00:24 PST 2004


On Saturday 10 January 2004 07:39 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> 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

Please disregard -- I figured out how to add my own fortune file.

Thanks,

Andrew Gould



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