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Delete the first line of a text file without reading it

marcel ethan 2186 30 Jan 2014

I'm working with a very large text file (around 70 thousand lines) and I want to remove the top line.

Clearly, loading the entire thing into memory, deleting the top line, then re-writing the whole thing again is inefficiant:

var lines = File.ReadLines(accountFileLocation.Text).Skip(1);

File.WriteAllLines("output.txt", lines);

Is there any other way to do it?


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