Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


Shell Programming and Scripting

cut 1st 2 characters off all line1st in file

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cut 1st 2 characters off all line1st in file
# 1  
Old 02-27-2009
cut 1st 2 characters off all line1st in file
I know this sounds simple, but I have a logfile with

> something
> something_else
> another_entry
...

how do I cut the first 2 characters off the left side? I tried to use

Code:
cut -c 1-2 somefile > someotherfile

but that just cut gave me the 2 left characters, I want to cut those out and leave the rest of the lines, which are variable length, but one entry per line.
# 2  
Old 02-27-2009
Hammer & Screwdriver try the following
(which is sort of the inverse of what you were trying)

Code:
cut -c3- somefile >newfile

# 3  
Old 02-27-2009
great, it worked, thanks Smilie
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to remove 1st and last two characters of each line of the file

I want to remove 1st and last two characters of each line of the file Ex: file1 zzfile1ee @xfile2:y qfile3>> @ file4yy and redirect to the file called new Basically file will have any charcter including space, spical character... Please help.... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: shell1509
7 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cut the first 100 characters of file

Hello all, I have a file and would like to cut the first 100 characters of the first line. I tried it with the ‘cut’-command: cut –c100- $file > $file.tmp But this does not work, because it will cut the first 100 characters of each line. But I need to cut them only from the beginning of... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: API
6 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

cut certain characters for each line in a file

Hi Everyone, i have a file 1.txt <a><a"" dd>aaaaauweopriuew</f><">!(^)!</aa></ff> <a><a"" dd>bbbbbuweopriuew</f><">!(^*)!</aa></ff> i know i can use perl -p -i -e "s/>aaaaa/aa/g" 1.txt perl -p -i -e "s/>bbbbb/bb/g" 1.txt to acheive only keep the first two characters of the five characters,... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jimmy_y
4 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cut last 13 characters and take the rest of the file name

Hi, I would like to cut last 13 characters of a file name and take the rename the file name as follows: Input: A.DAT20110517033732 Output: A.DAT I have tried the following command and cut last 13 characters. echo A.DAT20110517033732 | awk '{print substr($0, length($0)-13)}' ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: pyaranoid
3 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cut the last 15 characters off

Hi Gurus, I am trying to execute the below command. However the output shows the value + path of the folder where the command is being executed. But I am only interested in the value but not the path. du -hs /aps/inf/SeLogs when I execute the above command, output is 32G... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: svajhala
5 Replies

6. AIX

How to cut a flat file according to a certain number of characters?

hello everybody i am looking for a shell to cut a flat file (with a long unique line) according to a certain number of characters and redirect every result to an output file. here is an example MyFile : 12 3 456 12 3 456 12 3 456 ..... and i took every 9-characters including BLANKS... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: fastlane3000
6 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Need to cut first 21 and 32-25 characters from file

Guys, can you help me in doing cut first 21 and 32-35 characters from file. I tried with cut -c to cut first 21 characters ,It is succeeded. But i need both first 21 and 32-35. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mohan_xunil
1 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

changing 1st 3 characters of the file name!?

Hello Freinds, I have a file with name ABC123456. and I need to change this to X123456. Please tell me how can I do this? Thank you. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: smarty86
5 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

cut between characters of a file

Hi All, Need to convert file names to upper case using tr command in Unix. In a folder -> /apps/dd01/misc there are two files like: pi-abcd567sd.pdf pi-efgh1.pdf The output of should be like: pi-ABCD567SD.pdf pi-EFGH1.pdf I have used the command to work as below: for f... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: a1_win
3 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

how to cut first 3 characters of each line in a file

Hi Friends I have a file like sample1.txt ------------ 10998909.txt 10898990.txt 1898772222.txt 8980000000000.txt I need to take first 3 characters of each line in a file and i need to print it ' like loop 109 108 189 898 (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: kittusri9
7 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question