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head is a basic opposite of tail in relation to what part of the file operations are performed on. By default, head will read the first 10 lines of a file.
tail [OPTION]... [ Tail is a command which prints the last few number of lines (10 lines by default) of a certain file, then terminates. Example 1: By default “tail” prints the last 10 lines of a file, then exits.
To display the last part of the file, we use the tail command in the Linux system. The tail command is used to display the end of a text file or piped data in the Linux operating system. By default, it displays the last 10 lines of its input to the standard output. It is also complementary of the head command.
The basic functionality of the Linux tail command is to output the end of a file. Typically, new data added to a file ends up at its tail (i.e., the end). So, the Linux tail command allows us to check if a file has new data attached. Therefore, the Linux tail command is a popular tool to evaluate and monitor log files.
tail --help gives the following:
-n, --lines=K output the last K lines, instead of the last 10;
or use -n +K to output lines starting with the Kth
So to filter out the first 2 lines, -n +3 should give you the output you are looking for (start from 3rd).
Assuming your version of tail supports it, you can specify starting the tail after X lines. In your case, you'd do 2+1.
tail -n +3
[mdemaria@oblivion ~]$ tail -n +3 stack_overflow.txt
CCCC
DDDD
EEEE
A simple solution using awk:
awk 'NR > 2 { print }' file.name
Try sed 1,2d. Replace 2 as needed.
tail -n +linecount filename will start output at line linecount of filename, so tail -n +3 filename
should do what you want.
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