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On 10/10/06 01:44, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On 10/10/06, Jonathan Greenberg <jgreenberg@arc.nasa.gov> 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.
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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.
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