How to skip a line every two lines starting by skipping the first line?

Hey guys I need some help over here

here’s my code : ls -lt | sed -n 'p;n'

that code makes me skip from a line to another when listing file names but doesn’t start by skipping the first one, how to make that happen ?

Here’s an exemple without my code to skip to make it clear:

And here’s an exemple of when I use the skip code

>Solution :

You have to invert your sed command: it should be n;p instead of p;n:

Your code:

for x in {1..20}; do echo $x ; done | sed -n 'p;n'

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The version with sed inverted:

for x in {1..20}; do echo $x ; done | sed -n 'n;p'

Output:

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