Vista - removing first three lines in a text file

I have a 10mb text file and instead of doing get-contents set-contents i
would like to just remove the first 3 lines of the text file. Is there a way
to do this quickly?

Chris

>I have a 10mb text file and instead
> of doing get-contents set-contents i
> would like to just remove the first 3
> lines of the text file. Is there a way
> to do this quickly?
>

Perhaps Microsoft's Log Parser
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx

If you mean quickly in terms of CPU cycles, there is nothing that works with
files in a classical text-based sense that will do that. Generally every
single utility that does some kind of tailing operation has to go through
the entire file.

If your concern is resource loading, your best bet is to write to a new file
line-by-line after skipping 3 lines, then delete the old file and rename the
new one.

"fixitchris" <fixitchris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8DFE1628-3635-40A9-9C44-2F585BE45873@microsoft.com...
>I have a 10mb text file and instead of doing get-contents set-contents i
> would like to just remove the first 3 lines of the text file. Is there a
> way
> to do this quickly?
>
> Chris