Removing the First Line of a File

shell
tail sed

I usually use

Terminal window
tail -n +2

to get all the first line of a file but today I learned you can also accomplish the same task with

Terminal window
sed '1d'

Both also work for removing more than just the first line of an input. To remove the first three lines

Terminal window
sed '1,3d'

is equivalent to

Terminal window
tail -n +4

It seems like tail is recommended for larger files though, since it doesn’t process the entire file.

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