Re: Shell stripting

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Thu Mar 20 2003 - 09:40:25 EST


Yep; tail +69 should work.

Simon Green
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian D. Bjorhovde [mailto:ianbjor@MOBILEAUDIO.COM]
> Sent: 20 March 2003 13:59
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Shell stripting
>
>
> Adam Hanel wrote:
> > What if the file grows periodically? Say 5-10 lines a
> week. I would still
> > only want the first 69 lines, then the rest of the file,
> split into two
> > separate files.
>
> Does AIX's tail support the +line method (or is this GNU specific)?
>
> e.g. head -69 file ; tail +70 file
>



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