From: Chris Shea <cmshea@...>
Date: 2008-06-04T05:49:21+09:00
Subject: Re: deleting first line from a file

On Jun 3, 1:59 pm, suresh <suresh.amritap...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a HUGE data file multiple lines of data. I want to delete just
> the first line from it. How to do it efficiently?
>
> thanks
> suresh

Would this work for you?

  tail -n +2 original.file > modified.file

HTH,
Chris