[Linux-disciples] Deleting the first N lines of a file

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:47:39PM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Why does it need to be so fast? Maybe you're asking the wrong question.

The large file we're working with is an Apache logfile.
Doing the 'head' command and then overwriting the logfile
will lose us some hits. We'd prefer not to lose any hits at
all, which is why we'd like to just pull the top N lines off
the file, write them to another file, and then delete the
top N lines off the original file.

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