From: Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Date: 2008-06-05T04:22:23+09:00
Subject: Re: deleting first line from a file

Chris Shea wrote:
> On Jun 3, 1:59 pm, suresh <suresh.amritap...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>   tail -n +2 original.file > modified.file

For the sake of trivia, sed (stream editor) also does the job:

  sed 1d original.file > modified.file  # 1d means delete line 1
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