How to apply inverse of head/tail

Question

It seems as if I find myself wanting to extract the inverted selection of head or tail almost as often as I do the normal selection. Ie, I want to filter *out* the first or last n lines of some standard input. Is there a simple way to do this, aside from writing a short script to get the line count, then head/tailing off the complement of what I want? I wish head and tail had the grep equivalent of -v.

Answer 1

From what I understand, the inverse of
head -n 25 file
would be
tail -n +25 file
and the inverse of
tail -n 25 file
would be
head -n -25 file
Is this what you want?