tail command..

amon · June 2, 2006, 4:17am

I was wondering how can I do this

I have file myfile.txt

wc -l is: 5 000 000

I have to remove first 1 000 000 lines from header..

I tryed with tail -4000000 myfile.txt>newfile.txt

but it does not work...

any help??

vino · June 2, 2006, 4:24am

sed -e "1,100000d" file > file.new

amon · June 2, 2006, 4:36am

thanks..vino..I needed first 1000k lines..so I added one "0" but thanks script did a job...

Thanks..