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 -2  && nawk 'NR>2'  | sort

example:

> cat temp
10
8
1
2
3
4
5
> head -2 temp && nawk 'NR>2' temp | sort -r
10
8
5
4
3
2
1