How to get the last lines of a file except the first 20?

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kch picture kch · Nov 24, 2008 · Viewed 23.6k times · Source

Say I have a file with any number of lines, say, 125. I want to get all the lines except the first n, say, 20. So, I want lines 21–125.

Is there a way to do this with with tail/head, or some other tool?

Answer

unwind picture unwind · Nov 24, 2008

Try

tail -n +21 myfile.txt

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