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Easier... 
/usr/bin/sed -n '3,$ p' < your_input_file

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Re^2: file handling
by runrig (Abbot) on Jul 09, 2008 at 18:21 UTC
    Even easier:
    /usr/bin/tail +3 your_input_file

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      Harder but -Ofun: 
      perl -e '@a=<>; print @a[3..$#a]'

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      []s, HTH, Massa
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        Whoops. Slurping a file into memory - which is what '@a=<>' will do - is a bad idea unless you know that it's a small file. 

        
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