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zazzybob,

perl -pi -e '$_ = "" if ( $. == 1 );' large_file
I am trying to convert the above perl command line you reference to a script.
I am not sure what the -pi does for the command line....

I will give these methods a try. Thanks

In perl I want to do remove the top line of my input file then process the next line. I want to do something like
head -1 inputfile > temp
grep -v temp inputfile > newinputfile
cp newinputfile...