How to ignore the header record?

Awksome · Jul 21, 2009

I have a file with a header record. I want to ignore reading the header record using AWK.

Please advise.

p5wizard · Jul 21, 2009

[tt]awk '(NR>1){print}' /path/to/your/file_with_headers[/tt]

HTH,

p5wizard

Awksome · Jul 21, 2009

Thanks for the response!

but I have 2 files and I am processing the files to compare values.

PHV · Jul 21, 2009

Have a look at the FNR builtin variable in your awk documentation.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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p5wizard · Jul 27, 2009

It pays to specify your complete problem in your original post... Just use FNR instead of NR then as hinted by PHV.

HTH,

p5wizard

Annihilannic · Jul 27, 2009

This is probably related to this thread:

Annihilannic.