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How to remove the first X lines of a file? — First published in fullweb.io issue #83
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How to remove the first X lines of a file?

Easy, with GNU tail to the rescue:

tail -n +X file.txt

Where -n prints the last lines, but the + inverts this and starts from the top of the file.

So tail -n +2 file.txt will print the whole file, minus its first line. Using +1 would just print the whole file unchanged.

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