Copying All But the First Line into a New File

senthilmuthiah · 03-27-2009, 03:34 PM

All:

I have a text file and I would like to copy all the lines except the first one to a new text file.

I know I could do this using sed/awk but I wasn't able to figure out, how exactly would I write that.

Looking forward to some help!

MensaWater · 03-27-2009, 04:43 PM

sed 1,1d <filename>

The 1,1d tells sed to delete the lines in that range.

number-g · 03-27-2009, 04:46 PM

if you have tcl installed you could create this file:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/tclsh

set file [open /path/to/yourfile]
set data [read $file]
close $file

set data [split $data \n]
set data [lreplace $data 0 0]

set newfile [open /path/to/newfile w]
puts $newfile [join $data \n]
close $newfile

and make it executable.

hope this helps,
g

chrism01 · 03-28-2009, 12:57 AM

Code:

n=`wc -l file.ext|cut -d' ' -f1`
let n=$n-1
tail -n file.ext >newfile.txt

syg00 · 03-28-2009, 02:57 AM

Kiss - sed wins. Personally I would use the inverse "sed -n '2,$p' your-file > newfile"

senthilmuthiah · 03-29-2009, 08:39 AM

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Thank you all. All your solutions worked!