I’ve a simple text file, named samples.log
. In this file I’ve several lines. Suppose I have a total of 10 lines. My purpose is to replace the first 5 lines of the file with the last file lines of the same file. For example:
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
line 5
line 6
line 7
line 8
line 9
line 10
Become:
line 6
line 7
line 8
line 9
line 10
In other words, I simply want to delete the first 5 lines of the file and then I want to shift up the last 5. I’m working on Linux. What is the most simple way to do this? Is there a command?
I’m working on a C program, but I think that is better to execute the linux command inside the program, instead of doing this operation in C, that I think would be quite difficult.
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Answers
You can use this command:
You calculate the total amount of lines:
From that, you subtract 5:
And you use that last number of lines:
Simply
will do the job.
tail -n +NUM file
will print thefile
starting with lineNUM