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NAME

       buthead - copies all but the first few lines

SYNOPSIS

       buthead count
       bh count

EXAMPLES

       buthead 5 <file-with-5-line-header >file-without-header
       seq 5 | buthead 3

DESCRIPTION

       Buthead copies all but the first count lines of stdin to stdout.

DIAGNOSTICS

       Terminates gracefully if EOF encountered within first count lines.

AUTHOR

       Written by Barak A. Pearlmutter on April 1.

BUGS

       Functionality  overlaps  with  tail -n +count  or  awk(NR>count)’  or
       sed 1,countd

SEE ALSO

       head(1), tail(1), sed(1)