head
shows the first N
lines of a filetail
shows the last N
lines of a file.But what if you want to remove the first
N
lines of a file? Simply show the last lines of the file startin' from the N+1
line! Ok, the point is that tail
has an option like this: simply give the line number to start from just after the plus sign. Exempli gratia: tail +12 too_much_header_lines.out > just_lines_I_want.out