From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2008-06-04T19:19:09+09:00
Subject: Re: deleting first line from a file

2008/6/4 suresh <suresh.amritapuri@gmail.com>:
> 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?
>

ruby -n -e 'print $_ if $.>1' original.file > modified.file

Regards,

Park Heesob