Removing 10 first lines of a text file

How to remove the 10 first lines of a text file? Easy job with sed (Stream EDitor):

sed '1,10d' myFile

Example: removing 10 first lines of all text files in a directory.

for file in *.txt
do
sed '1,10d' $file > output_dir/new_${file}
done

Further readings: 

http://sed.sourceforge.net/sedfaq.html

http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html

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