Forgive my ignorance but what is a csv file then?
Do not use "type csv" but "type delimited".
Cetin

>that does remove the top line perfectly but the file is a txt file, type csv does not work with it.
>~M
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>>>hi all,
>>>i have what i hope is an easy one. I have a customer and i export details to a csv file for them. on the first line it lists the field names but i want to remove this, i searched the help but no joy there, is there a way to say copy to newfile9 type csv "no header" or something?
>>>~M
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copy to myfile.csv type delimited

Cetin