topic Re: delete one line in Operating System - HP-UX

delete one line

Maurice Skubski — Fri, 18 May 2001 15:00:03 GMT

hi, i want to delete only the first line in a file (c-shell script). if i try it with sed, it deletes all lines :( what is the solution? thanx for help

Re: delete one line

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 18 May 2001 15:11:57 GMT

Hi:

Try this:

# sed 1d file.in > file.out

...JRF...

Re: delete one line

Vincenzo Restuccia — Fri, 18 May 2001 15:15:29 GMT

Edit the file in vi
:1,d

Re: delete one line

f. halili — Fri, 18 May 2001 15:29:52 GMT

$ cat test
#! /bin/sh
echo "hello world"
echo "bye ..."

$ sed 1d test > test2

$ cat test2
echo "hello world"
echo "bye ..."

- fnhalili

Re: delete one line

Abel Berger — Fri, 18 May 2001 15:48:41 GMT

Hi, try this :

sed 1d [file] > [outputfile]
mv [outputfile] [file]

I holp help you

Regards,

Abel Berger

Re: delete one line

Mladen Despic — Fri, 18 May 2001 18:09:31 GMT

Another way of doing it:

tail +2 file.in > file.out

Re: delete one line

Deepak_5 — Sun, 20 May 2001 12:52:58 GMT

Hey,

One more way.
awk 'NR>1{print $0}' file.in >file.out

Thanks and Regards
Deepak