Подобие head и tail, только наоборот

head и tail :)

tail -n $((`wc -l < $TESTFILE`-$LINES)) $TESTFILE

man tail.

> If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines) is a `+', print beginning with the Nth item from the start of each file, otherwise, print the last N items in the file. N may have a multiplier suffix: b for 512, k for 1024, m for 1048576 (1 Meg).

man tail ))

$tail +10000 /var/log/messages

второй пост жжот ))

Спасибо за подсказку. Воспользуюсь способом с + в tail :)