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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Deleting First 10 letters in a line Post 302208392 by pyaranoid on Monday 23rd of June 2008 06:39:33 PM
Old 06-23-2008
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

Thanks

Sue
 

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NAME
lurker-params -- parses parameters from the config file SYNOPSIS
lurker-params [-c <config-file>] [-f <locale>] [-d -u -a -n -e -x -m -i -k -w -h -r] DESCRIPTION
lurker-params outputs various lurker settings from the config file for use in shell scripts. Do not use sed/grep/etc, instead use this as it respects include. OPTIONS
-c config-file Use this config file for lurker settings. -f locale Choose lurker config fields from the specified locale (it defaults to selecting the fallback case for each field). -d Output only the dbdir parameter -u Output only the db_umask parameter -a Output only the archive parameter -n Output only the administrator name -e Output only the administrator email address -x Output only the xslt processing command -m Output only the mime pgp verifying command -i Output only the inline pgp verifying command -k Output only the command for deleting a message -w Output only the web_cache state -h Output only the hide_email state -r Output only the raw_email state SEE ALSO
lurker-index(1), lurker-prune(1), lurker-list(1), lurker-search(1) lurker documentation on http://lurker.sourceforge.net/ COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002: Wesley W. Terpstra <terpstra@users.sourceforge.net> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER- CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. BUGS
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