On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Craig White <craig.white at ttiltd.com> wrote: > this was interesting but I found that I had to NOT use 'head -n -2' but rather 'head -n 2' You can do 'head -2' or 'head -n2', but not 'head -n -2'. I assumed it was a typo ;-)