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BUTHEAD(1) User Commands BUTHEAD(1)

NAME

buthead - copies all but the first few lines

SYNOPSIS

buthead count
bh count

EXAMPLES

buthead 5 <file-with-5-line-header >file-without-header
seq 5 | buthead 3

DESCRIPTION

Buthead copies all but the first count lines of stdin to stdout.

DIAGNOSTICS

Terminates gracefully if EOF encountered within first count lines.

AUTHOR

Written by Barak A. Pearlmutter on April 1.

BUGS

Functionality overlaps with tail -n +count or awk '(NR>count)' or sed 1,countd

SEE ALSO

head(1), tail(1), sed(1)

April 1 buthead (latzutils)