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Ignore the first line of a delimited file.

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Section: awk Scripting Patterns

Skip a header row

bash
bash
awk 'NR>1 {print $1, $2}' users.csv
Explanation

Skipping headers is one of the most common awk patterns for CSV-like inputs.

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