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c341 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-25-2006, 03:06 PM

Hello,

When I try to join 2 files, I need to omit the first line of the files.

How do I omit it??? :roll:

Thank You
Best Regards - Joe

nixcraft · #2 (**permalink**) 12-25-2006, 07:49 PM

To omit something from file use grep command

Code:

grep -v "word-to-omit" filename

Above command will omit any matching word. To just remove/omit first line use combination of wc and tail -f command:

Code:

tail -n $(wc -l filename | awk  '{ print $1-1}') filename

c341 · #3 (**permalink**) 12-29-2006, 10:39 AM

Thanks A Lot, It Worked!!!

Ash · #4 (**permalink**) 12-29-2006, 01:11 PM

Code:

sed 1d filename

Just to do honour to sed, one of my best software friends.

nixcraft · #5 (**permalink**) 12-29-2006, 02:07 PM

Ash welcome to nixCraft forum.

Thanks for quick and dirty solution. I almost forget nifty sed.

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Omit the first line in a file