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Old 09-26-2009
edit this text file
hi,

i need to remove the first column (and dash) from this text file.

Is there any unix command allowing me to do it ?
Code:
 1-16 
 2-28 
 3-16 
 4-20 
 5- 8 
 6-32 
 7-19 
 8-16 
 9-27 
 10- 7 
 11-14 
 12-18

thanks
Last edited by vgersh99; 09-26-2009 at 11:51 AM.. Reason: code tags, PLEASE!
# 2  
Old 09-26-2009
The following command will display the desired content on the standard output:
Code:
cut -d- -f2 infile

If you want to edit the file in-place:

Code:
perl -i.bck -pe's/\d+-//' infile

# 3  
Old 09-26-2009
you can go for this following by the help of awk:


Code:
awk -F "-" '{print $2}' infile


Regards,
Sanjay
 
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