nushell/docs/commands/drop_nth.md

title	layout	version
drop nth	command	0.59.1

Drop the selected rows.

Signature

> drop nth (row number or row range) ...rest

Parameters

• row number or row range: the number of the row to drop or a range to drop consecutive rows
• ...rest: the number of the row to drop

Examples

Drop the first, second, and third row

> [sam,sarah,2,3,4,5] | drop nth 0 1 2

Drop the first, second, and third row

> [0,1,2,3,4,5] | drop nth 0 1 2

Drop rows 0 2 4

> [0,1,2,3,4,5] | drop nth 0 2 4

Drop rows 2 0 4

> [0,1,2,3,4,5] | drop nth 2 0 4

Drop range rows from second to fourth

> echo [first second third fourth fifth] | drop nth (1..3)