Top "Unix-head" questions

How do I use Head and Tail to print specific lines of a file

I want to say output lines 5 - 10 of a file, as arguments passed in. How could I use head and …

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What's the opposite of head? I want all but the first N lines of a file

Given a text file of unknown length, how can I read, for example all but the first 2 lines of the …

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Using combination of "head" and "tail" to display middle line of the file in Unix

If I have a file name myownfile.txt which contains 3 lines of text. foo hello world bar I want to …

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

Say I have a file with any number of lines, say, 125. I want to get all the lines except the …

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PowerShell equivalent for "head -n-3"?

I've been able to track down basic head/tail functionality: head -10 myfile <==> cat myfile | select -first 10 tail …

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How can I use 'head' in a bash script with a variable?

I've been trying to create a script that can read a certain line off of a file given some variables …

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find results piped to zcat and then to head

I'm trying to search for a certain string in a lot of gziped csv files, the string is located at …

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