From: suresh <suresh.amritapuri@...>
Date: 2008-06-04T18:59:12+09:00
Subject: Re: deleting first line from a file

On Jun 4, 1:48 am, Chris Shea <cms...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Hi

BTW is there any equivalent method equivalent to linux tail in ruby?

suresh