Lance Hoffmeyer <lance@augustmail.com> writes:
LH> I am trying to write a script and I need to remove the top 3 lines of a
LH> file. I thought tail would be the tool for the job.
LH>
LH> The script is:
LH>
LH> enscript -1 -r -M Letter -p outputfile $1
LH>
LH> I need tail to take off the top 3 lines of $1
Probably
tail +3 $1 | enscript -1r -M Letter -p outputfile
Or, failing that:
tail +3 $1 > tmpfile
enscript -1r -M Letter -p outputfile tmpfile
Often, programs will accept '-' as a command-line parameter in place
of a file name to mean "standard input".