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Deleting First 10 letters in a line
Hi,

Could any one of you let me know any simple Unix command for deleting first 10 letters of first line in unix?

Eg: 123456789ABC --Input

ABC--Output

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Could any one of you let me know any simple Unix command for deleting first 10 letters of first line in unix?

Eg: 123456789ABC --Input

ABC--Output
You mean CB? (1-9 is 9 chars, not 10)
Code:
echo "123456789ABC" | sed 's/^..........//'
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Hi,

Thank you. It worked when i use the code provided by you. Suppose if i need to use that code for a file and if i want to replace the input file with the first 10 letters removed, how can i do that?

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sed 's/^..........//' inputfile > newfile
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Hi,

If i do like that, i am getting an output file with 0 bytes.

Please adivice me what can be done to resolve this.

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Code:
echo "123456789ABC" | sed 's/^..........//'
Hmm, but that is not very flexible, imagine the next problem being to remove the first 43 characters. How about:
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echo "123456789ABC" | cut -c11-
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Hi,

The following command gave me the correct results:

cut -c39- In_Put.txt > Out_Put.txt


Thanks Once again,

Sue
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