delete one line

[Maurice Skubski]

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

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Try this:

# sed 1d file.in > file.out

...JRF...

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

Edit the file in vi
:1,d

[f. halili]

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

$ sed 1d test > test2

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

- fnhalili

[Abel Berger]

Hi, try this :

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

I holp help you

Regards,

Abel Berger

[Mladen Despic]

Another way of doing it:

tail +2 file.in > file.out

[Deepak_5]

Hey,

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

Thanks and Regards
Deepak