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Old 07-15-2006
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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Code:
awk ' {
        if (NR==1){
            if( $1 ~ /^[A-Za-z0-9]/) {print $0}
        }
}' file1

If I understand what you want. ^[stuff] means match this at the start of the line
or

Code:
sed '1q' file1 | grep '^[a-zA-Z0-9]'