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How to delete the first 10 lines in a text file?

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Old November 12th, 2004, 11:07 AM
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How to delete the first 10 lines in a text file?
In c shell script, I need to delete the first 10 lines in every input text file.


Thanks for you help.

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Old November 12th, 2004, 01:27 PM
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one way:
Code:
tail -n +10 filename > tmp.tmp
mv tmp.tmp filename
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Another way:

sed -e '1,10d' filename > tmpfile
mv tmpfile filename
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Old November 15th, 2004, 11:55 AM
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Thanks so much!
Both answers work great!
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