Thanks for all the answers. I tried this 'sed' method of Kenny but it reduces my file to the characterless file. I 'll try something else. Ward Kenny Billiau wrote:
apparently, you also have to escape the {} in tcsh .. so the sed solution becomes:
sed "s/^.\{,2\}\(.*\)//" infile > outfile
(djeezes)
-Kenny
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Ward Blondé wrote:
I have no problems with VI, but I don't understand the answer: the number n doesn't occur in it!?
Ward
Sofie Van Landeghem wrote:
Oh, gaan we in VI beginnen, ik doe alles in java hoor :p
Kenny Billiau wrote:
In VI you can do:
<esc>gg<ctrl+v>Gd
the sequences between <> are key you have to press .. :) On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Ward Blondé wrote: > > > > Hoi Binaries, > Does anyone know a nice method to strip the first n characters away > > from every line in a file? > Ward
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