I did search the posts for info on this and while there were some in the ballpark, none addressed this specifically. (also I tried to post this once it said I was logged out, so hopefully I'm not sending a duplicate here).

I have a set of files (250 +/-) where I need to delete the first "$x" number of lines and output what remains to a new file (or cat all the results into one file)

so far, I was able to piece together this much:

cat -n index20a6.html index3e43.html index6a84.html (...and so on) | grep
'<TITLE>Section 440.' | awk '{print $1}'

it results in this:

973
1722
2219
...

'<TITLE>Section 440.' is on a different line in each file so the amount of line to delete will vary.

The missing piece is to delete '1,973d' '1,1722d' '1,2219d' as it goes through and create a new file.

(also if I can go through this list recursively rather than list all the files in my command, that would be a bonus!)

Thanks for any assitance on this!