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Get the first line from a file

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Hi All, I want to get the first line from a file and write it into another file. Please help. Thanks in advance. Regards, Raj Thanks & Regards, Raj

Name: lankrypt0
Date: December 11, 2007 at 08:01:37 Pacific

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head -1 infile.txt > outfile.txt

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Name: nails
Date: December 11, 2007 at 22:19:16 Pacific

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If you don't like the 'head' example, there's always sed: sed q infile.txt > outfile.txt or awk: awk ' { if(NR == 1) { print $0 break } } ' infile.txt > outfile.txt

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Name: FishMonger
Date: December 12, 2007 at 16:21:44 Pacific

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Or perl perl -pe "last if $. == 2" input.txt > output.txt

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