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perl -pi -e '$_ = "" if ($. == 1);' filename

works very well.

Thanks very much for your help, Tanku and Reborg.

Regards, xli

Hi,

I want to remove the first line from a flat file using unix command as simple as possible. Can anybody give me a hand ?

Thanks in advance.

xli

Hi,

I am going to sort a huge flat file using sort command, this file is about 36 million lines, 179 fields delimitered by Ctrl B (002). eg.

1^B198709.....
17^B200301....
3^B196511.......

I got my issue resolved finally, thanks very much for your people's help!

xli

Great!. That's exactly what I want. Two more questions :

First, as all of my flat files are huge, each contains around 24 millions records. If I join them tegether in one command, is it possible...

Thanks, Neo and bhargav,

furthermore, is it possible to join more than two files at one time ?

Xli

Hi,

I have 7 big flat files, each contains 24 million records which have been sorted by the first field delimitered by Ctrl B (002).

I want to join them together side by side, eg.

File A:...