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

You're nearly there. Try this instead:

awk 'NR > 2 { print }' myfile

awk is rule based, and the rule appears bare (i.e., without braces) before the block it woud execute if it passes.

Also as Jaypal has pointed out, in awk if all you want to do is print the line that matches the rules you can even omit the action, thus simplifying the command to:

awk 'NR > 2' myfile