Re: what happens to the rest of a file piped to head/tail?

[Jay Link <jlink@interlink-bbs.com>]

Of course, you could do it the long & half-assed way with wc (word count).

wc -l  gives you a line count.

wc -l /etc/file


NUM=$(wc -l /etc/file); NUM=$((NUM-20)); tail -$NUM /etc/file


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