On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:01:22AM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> 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.
FWIW you can do something like this:
fortune -m tail freebsd-tips
to display all tips in the freebsd-tips fortune file that contain
'tail'.
As it turns out there is this tip:
To see the last 10 lines of a long file, use "tail filename". To see the
first 10 lines, use "head filename".
-- Dru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
which is almost what you're asking about :P
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