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rated 0 times [ 32] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 209357 / 2 Years ago, thu, december 30, 2021, 3:02:11

I need to remove the first 42 lines of a 2GB SQL dump.

I know I can view the first lines using:

head -n 44 dump.sql

But is there anyway to edit or remove them?

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answered 2 Years ago soahan · Accepted Answer

This seems to be the easiest:

sed '1,42d' test.sql > test2.sql

Remove lines 1-42 from test.sql and save as test2.sql