[Nottingham] Shell programming

[Paul Sladen]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Roger Light wrote:
> On a related note - are there any commands you use that are very useful 
> but might not be well known?  [...]
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  head -n -4

is good for negatively stripping the last n lines off a file;  for example
removing worthless and pointless disclaimers...  :-)

	-Paul
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