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The first line of a file can be skipped by using various Linux commands. As shown in this tutorial, there are different ways to skip the first line of a file by using the `awk` command. Noteably, the NR variable of the `awk` command can be used to skip the first line of any file.
Using head to get the first lines of a stream, and tail to get the last lines in a stream is intuitive. But if you need to skip the first few lines of a stream, then you use tail “-n +k” syntax. And to skip the last lines of a stream head “-n -k” syntax.
If you don't want to use echo repeatedly to create new lines in your shell script, then you can use the \n character. The \n is a newline character for Unix-based systems; it helps to push the commands that come after it onto a new line.
The tail program can do this:
ls -lart | tail -n +2
The -n +2 means “start passing through on the second line of output”.
Pipe it to awk:
awk '{if(NR>1)print}'
or sed
sed -n '1!p'
ls -lart | tail -n +2 #argument means starting with line 2
This is a quick hacky way: ls -lart | grep -v ^total.
Basically, remove any lines that start with "total", which in ls output should only be the first line.
A more general way (for anything):
ls -lart | sed "1 d"
sed "1 d" means only print everything but first line.
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