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Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> writes:

>> I tend to prefer "sed -n -e '3,$p'" for things like this for portability.
>
> I'm fine with that, but I sometimes wonder if systems that do not like
> "tail -n +3" really tend to like a "sed -n -e '3,$p'" :)

Why?  sed is as old as V7, which does not have "tail -n".