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

awk is based on pattern{action} statements. In your case, the pattern is NR>2 and the action you want to perform is print. This action is also the default action of awk.

So even though

awk 'NR>2{print}' filename

would work fine, you can shorten it to

awk 'NR>2' filename.