sed - Apply awk to everything except for first line

Question

I'm looking to apply some awk processing to add the word "OR" to the beginning of each line, except for the first line. However, I'd still like the first line to print out.

Currently, I'm using the current command:

awk '$0="OR "$0' file.txt

This will give me the following output:

OR line1
OR line2
OR line3 etc

How can I get it so that it spits out the following?:

line1
OR line2
OR line3 etc

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65601125/apply-awk-to-everything-except-for-first-line

Answer 1

You may use this awk:

awk 'NR > 1 {$0 = "OR " $0} 1' file

line1
OR line2
OR line3

Here NR > 1 condition will execute action block i.e. $0 = "OR " $0 for 2nd record onwards only but 1 will print all the rows.