Suppress last N lines printing

chakri400 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-12-2003

Hi,

I want to know different ways of suppressing printing of last N lines.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Sree

oombera · #2 (**permalink**) 11-12-2003

This is pretty vague.. you'll have to be a lot more specific for anyone to give you a meaningful answer!

If you want to display a the first n lines at the beginning of the file, look into the head command. It doesn't look like this is what you want though, but it'd more helpful to know exactly what you're trying to do.

------
There's probably a nice short way to do this, but a short script like this would work:

linesToSkip=10
b=`wc -l < yourFile`
head -n `expr $b - $linesToSkip` yourFile

More UNIX and Linux Forum Topics You Might Find Helpful
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Printing specified lines only	Mohit623	Shell Programming and Scripting	4	01-03-2008 08:55 AM
Suppress error message in unzip	skwyer	Shell Programming and Scripting	5	09-26-2007 06:20 PM
Printing lines with specific awk NF	jehrome_rando	Shell Programming and Scripting	1	03-13-2007 04:23 AM
Printing out whole lines in .ksh script	L_Smith	Shell Programming and Scripting	2	07-18-2006 09:51 PM
question about printing number of lines in a file	a8111978	UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers	5	09-17-2002 11:15 AM

Thread Tools	Search this Thread
Show Printable Version Email this Page	Search this Thread: Advanced Search
Display Modes	Rate This Thread
Switch to Linear Mode Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode	Rate This Thread:


	Powered by