any way to cat a file from 3rd line....

[boomer_2]

Hi guys,
Is there any way that i can cat a file and see the contents fro 3 line onwards.....leaving head and tail.........
i.e. if i have a file containing 10 lines........i should be able to view the file using cat command ,but from 3rd line ....onwards..........

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi :

# sed -n '3,$p' file

The "$" means the end-of-the-file.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Hein van den Heuvel]

perl -n 'print if $. > 2' file

Hein.

[boomer_2]

thnx James,Hein...........

[Ivan Krastev]

Use:

cat file | awk 'NR > 2'


regards,
ivan

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

I like the 'awk' solution but not with the additional 'cat' process!

# awk 'NR > 2' file

Let 'awk' open the file itself rather than having both 'cat' and 'awk' do I/O.

As you can see, your solution exists easily in 'sed', 'awk' or 'perl'. From a resource standpoint, I suspect that 'sed' is probably the fastest with the smallest memory footprint for this task.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Michael Mike Reaser]

I like everyone's awk, sed and perl solutions, but I'm wondering - what's wrong with a simple

tail -n +3 file

?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

>Mike: I like everyone's awk, sed and perl solutions, but I'm wondering - what's wrong with a simple tail -n +3 file

Nothing. In the words of Perl: TMTOWTDI

Regards!

...JRF...

[Mike Reaser]

JRF:

>Nothing. In the words of Perl: TMTOWTDI

:) :) :)

Seriously, I didn't know if tail was just too much of a Resource Hog to consider.

[Sandman!]

Yet another way of doing the same thing:

# ex -s +'3,$p|q!' file