---
name: "buthead"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "buthead"
version: "1.1-7"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/buthead"
---

# buthead(1)

copies all but the first few lines

## 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,***count***d**

## SEE ALSO

[head(1)](/head/1.md), [tail(1)](/tail/1.md), [sed(1)](/sed/1.md)