[RLUG] quick question

[Grant Kelly]

Alright unix fans, who can answer this the best?

I have a text file, it's about 2.3 GB. I need to delete the first 300
lines, and I don't want to have to load the entire thing into an
editor.

I'm trying `sed '1,300d' inputfile > output file`  but it's taking a
long time (and space) to output everything to the new file.

There has got to be a better way, a way that can do this in-place...


Grant