Need to remove few characters from each line till a pattern is matched

kiranlalka · #1 (**permalink**) 05-18-2009

Hi All,

I want to remove first few characthers from starting of the line till ',' Comma... which needs to be done for all the lines in the file

Eg:

File content

1,"1234",emp1,1234
2,"2345",emp2,2345

Expected output is

,"1234",emp1,1234
,"2345",emp2,2345

How can parse the file in the above manner using a shell scripts.. which command will be good to chose. How this can be achieved.

durden_tyler · #2 (**permalink**) 05-18-2009

Code:

sed 's/^[^,]*//' <file>

Franklin52 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-18-2009

Or:

Code:

sed 's/^.//' file

ghostdog74 · #4 (**permalink**) 05-18-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by Franklin52

Or:

Code:

sed 's/^.//' file

may need to change to take care of more characters before the comma

@OP, awk

Code:

awk -F"," '{$1=""}1' OFS="," file

kiranlalka · #5 (**permalink**) 05-19-2009

I used the below code

Quote:

Originally Posted by durden_tyler

Code:

sed 's/^[^,]*//' <file>

tyler_durden

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