Perl: How do I remove the first line of a file without reading and copying whole file

Question

I do have a whole bunch of files in a directory and from every file I want to remove the first line (including carriage return). I can read the whole file into an array of s

Answer 1

How about

tail +2

in shell?

(edit: in newer Linux you may need tail -n +2 (thank you, GNU! :( ))