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ed can save the day! :)

printf %s\\n '1,$s/^[^|]*|//' w q | ed -s file
or using a heredoc
ed -s file <<'EOED'
1,$s/^[^|]*|//
w
q
EOED

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Thank you Shell_Life and Mirni..
Mirni
For sed i am getting error when i use -i option
> sed -i 's/^[^|]*|//' FINAL.output
sed: illegal option -- i
Usage: sed [-n] [-e script] [-f source_file]...

Hi
I have a file with fields delimited by |. I need to remove the first field from the file. I tried cut but it just extracts that field.

sample.output
abc|100|name1
cde|200|name2...