How to bind all rows except the first row

Question

For example, I have a file

1 2 3 

then I want to print from the second line to the tail

How to do it in linux

Answer 1

 tail -n+2 my_file 

will output all lines in myfile starting from line 2. ( -n2 will show you the last two lines.)

tail has more features. Enter man tail for full documentation.

Answer 2

shorter with

 $ sed 1d filename 

or with awk

 $ awk 'NR>1' filename