How to remove first 5000 lines from file?

vishalpatel03 · September 23, 2009, 11:17am

Hi

I have AIX 5.3

I want schedule a cronjob that can remove first 5000 lines every weekend.
Is anybody know the commmand to remove first 5000 lines from unix file?

Any Help will be Greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Vishal

varontron · September 23, 2009, 11:23am

tail -n +5001 file > newfile

vishalpatel03 · September 23, 2009, 11:35am

How can we do same thing without creating new file? Thanks

Franklin52 · September 23, 2009, 12:18pm

You've posted a similar question about 1 year ago:

What kind of problems do you have with the given solutions there?

vishalpatel03 · September 23, 2009, 12:43pm

I apoloize for double submission. I got solution from past thread.

thegeek · September 23, 2009, 1:08pm

one more solution, to edit the original file itself.

sed -n -i '5001,$p' file