Is there a way to ignore header lines in a UNIX sort?

Question

I have a fixed-width-field file which I\'m trying to sort using the UNIX (Cygwin, in my case) sort utility.

The problem is there is a two-line header at the top of t

Answer 1

(head -n 2  && tail -n +3  | sort) > newfile

The parentheses create a subshell, wrapping up the stdout so you can pipe it or redirect it as if it had come from a single command.