Deleting the first two lines of a file using BASH or awk or sed or whatever

Question

I\'m trying to delete the first two lines of a file by just not printing it to another file. I\'m not looking for something fancy. Here\'s my (failed) attempt at awk:

Answer 1

Use tail:

tail -n+3 file

from the man page:

   -n, --lines=K
          output the last K lines, instead of the last 10; or use  -n  +K
          to output lines starting with the Kth