Thanx Glenn,
As it turned out I had started reading through all the Unix commands in one
of my Unix manuals. I had found the 'sed' command and had JUST figured out
how to use it to do what I wanted when I read your email. I planned on
using "sed '$d' filename > newfilename". I sure wish that I could have used
head or tail. It just seems like something that they should do. Oh, well.
Thanx for the assistance.
___
Tony Newton
> -----Original Message-----
> From: COLE,GLENN (Non-HP-SantaClara,ex2)
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 2:49 PM
> To: 'Newton, Tony'; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] Tailing a file.... sort of.
>
>
> Tony Newton writes:
>
> > I can't remember for the life of me how to print an entire
> file minus the
> > last 'x' lines on UX 10.20. I played with tail for awhile
> but that didn't
> > get me anywhere. Any suggestions.
>
> Incidentally, I just stumbled on what Tony may have been thinking.
>
> It turns out that 'tail' also accepts the syntax
>
> tail +2 filename
>
> vs. the more common
>
> tail -2 filename
>
> The latter case displays the last two lines of filename,
> while the former displays filename *beginning with* line 2
> (counting from 1).
>
> However, 'head' does not support this syntax.
>
> Thus, while it's easy to "print an entire file minus the
> FIRST 'x' lines,"
> it's not so easy to print minus the LAST 'x' lines.
>
> Learn something new every day....
>
> --Glenn
>
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