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Hello all,
Is there anyway to delete the first 6 characters on each line of a file using sed or awk? Thanks....
- 09-27-2007 #1Just Joined!
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sed & awk question
Hello all,
Is there anyway to delete the first 6 characters on each line of a file using sed or awk? Thanks.
- 09-27-2007 #2Just Joined!
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Here are two ways to do it with sed:
Code:sed 's/^......//' input_file sed 's/^.\{6\}//' input_file
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Thank you every much. You saved half of my working day.
- 09-28-2007 #4Linux User
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in awk
Code:awk '{print substr($0,7)}' file
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