Question

I have a very large text file and all I need to do is remove one single line from the top of the file. Ideally, it would be done in PHP, but any unix command would work fine. I’m thinking I can just stream through the beginning of the file till I reach \n, but I’m not sure how I do that.

Thanks,
Matt Mueller

Answer 1

sed -i -e '1d' file will do what you want.

• -i indicates “in-place”
• -e means “evaluate this expression”
• '1d' means, delete the first line