[Chicago-talk] delete the first line in a text file.

Steven Lembark lembark at wrkhors.com
Fri Jul 29 23:11:35 PDT 2005



-- Richard Reina <richard at rushlogistics.com>

>
>
> Anyone know the easiest way remove the 1st line in a
> text file.  I was thinking it should be something
> like:
>
> upen(FILE, "text.txt");
># delete the 1st (top) line
>
> close(FILE);
>
>
> but I've obviously come up short.

perl -i~ -n -e 'print if $. > 1' /path/to/file;


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