From: Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@...>
Date: 2008-04-10T03:24:15+09:00
Subject: Re: delete first line of a text file

On 4/9/08, Michele Zio <uncle.mike@email.it> wrote:
> hi,
> how can i delete first line of a file?
>
Assuming it's an ASCII file, this should work:  (Although it might be
slow on very large files)

FILENAME="file.txt"
text=''
File.open(FILENAME,"r"){|f|f.gets;text=f.read}
File.open(FILENAME,"w+"){|f| f.write(text)}

-Adam