-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/10/06 01:44, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On 10/10/06, Jonathan Greenberg <jgreenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> So I've been looking at the documentation for COPY, and I'm curious >> about a >> number of features which do not appear to be included, and whether these >> functions are found someplace else: > >> 1) How do I skip an arbitrary # of "header" lines (e.g. > 1 header >> line) to >> begin reading in data? > > if in 'csv' mode, you can set the header flag. if not, standard unix > tools fit the bill: > cat import.txt | tail -n +2 > output.txt <-- from bash That's not a very efficient way to handle large data sets. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFK2HGS9HxQb37XmcRAtxxAKCLKYg/RU23PUbmxQvl8MQVnVw/7ACgtwjj eZJX4zGcck0Zq8INAHXEYlA= =9EwP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
