Hi Tim,
Thanks for your response. But it is not deleting the
1st 6 lines.
See below
$
$ cat x
12
22
32
42
52
62
72
82
92
 
$
$ sed '6,$p' x    
12
22
32
42
52
62
62
72
72
82
82
92
92
 
$ 
  -   Tim Gorman <tim_at_sagelogix.com> wrote:
 > sed '6,$p' filename > new-filename
 >
 > on 9/14/03 7:49 AM, Oracle DBA at
 > sami_resume_at_yahoo.com wrote:
 >
 > > Hi List,
 > >
 > > I want to remove the first 5 lines of the text
 > from
 > > unix text file. Is there a command to do it
 > without
 > > opening a file manually? (I don't want to use (DD
 > > command)
 > >
 > > For example,
 > > ==============
 > > 1 to be removed
 > > 2 to be removed
 > > 3 to be removed
 > > 4 to be removed
 > > 5 to be removed
 > > aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
 > > sssssssssssssssss
 > > eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
 > > ==============
 > >
 > > Any help would be really appreciated.
 > > TIA
 > > Sami
 > >
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