Re: "output all but last N lines" command?

From: Adam Aube (aaube01_at_baker.edu)
Date: 12/18/04

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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:51:46 -0500

    William Ballard wrote:

    > You can specify "tail -n+5" to output "all but the first 5 lines".
    > But "head" has no such option to output "all but the last N lines."

    Perhaps you missed this from the head man page:

    -n, --lines=[-]N
                print the first N lines instead of the first 10; with the lead-
                ing `-', print all but the last N lines of each file

    Adam 

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