Hi everyone, how would I go about removing the first line of a (potentially very large) text file, ideally without having to load the file into a DataFrame or copying the full file? Best Jakob

Even simpler: open("file_to_read") do input open("test.txt", "w") do output for line in Iterators.drop(eachline(input), 1) println(output, line) end end end If you want to maximize speed, and avoid the extraneous newline pointed out by @yuyichao , it would be fas…

Removing the first line in a text file

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jling March 4, 2020, 8:04pm 7

why not use POSIX tools…
https://superuser.com/questions/284258/remove-first-line-in-bash

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Removing the first line in a text file

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