From: suresh <suresh.amritapuri@...>
Date: 2008-06-04T20:29:25+09:00
Subject: Re: deleting first line from a file

On Jun 4, 3:19 pm, Heesob Park <pha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/6/4 suresh <suresh.amritap...@gmail.com>:
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>
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> > On Jun 4, 1:48 am, Chris Shea <cms...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Jun 3, 1:59 pm, suresh <suresh.amritap...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> > 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?
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> ruby -n -e 'print $_ if $.>1' original.file > modified.file
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> Regards,
>
> Park Heesob

Hi Park Heesob

Thanks. But how can this be done inside a .rb file? The above must be
from command line right?

suresh