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mskalak

07-27-2011 02:23 PM

Using AWK to print out the first few lines of a txt file

Hi,

I have a few rather large text files, and I need a way to look at the first three lines of each. Is there a way to do this using awk?

Thanks!

crts	07-27-2011 02:34 PM

Hi,

does it have to be awk? Normally you would use
head -n 3 file

to do this.

mskalak

07-27-2011 02:52 PM

Thanks!

crts	07-27-2011 02:58 PM

You're welcome. Please mark the thread as solved.

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