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Say I have a file with any number of lines, say, 125. I want to get all the lines except the first n, say, 20. So, I want lines 21–125.
Is there a way to do this with with tail/head, or some other tool?
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head -15 /etc/passwd To look at the last few lines of a file, use the tail command. tail works the same way as head: type tail and the filename to see the last 10 lines of that file, or type tail -number filename to see the last number lines of the file. Try using tail to look at the last five lines of your .
Awk command to print all the lines except the last three lines.
To look at the first few lines of a file, type head filename, where filename is the name of the file you want to look at, and then press <Enter>. By default, head shows you the first 10 lines of a file. You can change this by typing head -number filename, where number is the number of lines you want to see.
tail [OPTION]... [ Tail is a command which prints the last few number of lines (10 lines by default) of a certain file, then terminates.
Try
tail -n +21 myfile.txt
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