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Old 03-12-2009
Read from text file misses first line
Hi!

I need to read in the first line from a text file (which will only ever have one line in it), so I tried this....

while read line
do
echo $line
done < $file

But this wasn't returning anything. So I tired a different file, which had multiple lines of text in it, and it returned each line apart from the first! Smilie

How do I just read out the first line?

Thanks in advance...
davewg
Smilie
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Old 03-12-2009
Code:
head -1 infile

# 3  
Old 03-12-2009
MySQL
Quote:
Originally Posted by zaxxon
Code:
head -1 infile

Perfect! Thank you for such a quick solution Smilie
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