On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 03:18:30PM -0700, Ming Hsu wrote:
> How can I delete the first line of a text file while retaining the
> formatting of the files? I have a bunch of files with 360 columns of
> data, each for 1 degree. The problem is that they are all labeled, and
> matlab takes in nothing but numbers, so I have to get rid of that first
> line. I have looked at awk, but awk seems to do just columns. Are there
> some other program that would allow me to delete a row of data?
>
> Thanks,
> Ming Hsu
Awk does do this. try
cat filename | awk '{if (NR>1) print}'
your welcome,
greg
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