What's the opposite of head? I want all but the first N lines of a file

Question

Given a text file of unknown length, how can I read, for example all but the first 2 lines of the file? I know tail will give me the last N lines, but

Answer 1

tail -n +linecount filename will start output at line linecount of filename, so tail -n +3 filename should do what you want.

Answer 2

A simple solution using awk:

awk 'NR > 2 { print }' file.name