shell script required

hi ,
i need a shell script that will remove the first and second lines of the text file
and will list the word count of the characters present in it.

the text file will be consisting of multiple textfiles.the first text file starts from
01-34.like wise the next file also starts from 01-34 lines. They r all contained in a same text file.

Sethunath,
Sample of input file and expected output will be great help.

Please read the forum rules. I have deleted your duplicate thread.

Delete the first two files of a file

sed '1,2d' file > newfile

Word count of a file

wc -w file

count words from line 3 onwards?

tail +3 | wc -w