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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to start reading from the nth line till the last line of a file. Post 302592268 by methyl on Monday 23rd of January 2012 11:11:16 AM
Old 01-23-2012
Much faster with "sed". Also by using "while read" rather than "for" we preserve each record intact:
Code:
sed -n '2,$ p' test.txt | while read line
do
         echo "${line}"
done

Note the double quotes round the string variable $line.
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   in_gladiator($code)
       Run the given code using Devel::Gladiator.

   repo_path_for($username)
       Returns a path on disk for where $username's replica is stored.

   repo_uri_for($username)
       Returns a file:// URI for $USERNAME'S replica (with the correct replica type prefix).

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       Returns the UUID of the test replica.

   database_uuid
       Returns the UUID of the test database.

   replica_last_rev
       Returns the sequence number of the last change in the test replica.

   as_user($username, $coderef)
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       Returns the UUID of the given user's test replica.

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       Checks that the given code block adds the given number of changes to the test replica. $msg is optional and will be printed with the test
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   serialize_conflict($conflict_obj)
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	   meta => { original_source_uuid => 'source_replica_uuid' }
	   records => { 'record_uuid' =>
			  { change_type => 'type',
			    props => { propchange_name => { source_old => 'old_val',
							    source_new => 'new_val',
							    target_old => 'target_val',
							  }
				     }
			  },
			'another_record_uuid' =>
			  { change_type => 'type',
			    props => { propchange_name => { source_old => 'old_val',
							    source_new => 'new_val',
							    target_old => 'target_val',
							  }
				     }
			  },
		      }

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