Delete the first five characters on any line of a text file in Linux with sed

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I need a one-liner to remove the first five characters on any line of a text file  How can I do that with sed

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sed  s             means  replace   s   substitute  beginning-of-line then 5 characters       with nothing   There are more compact or flexible ways to write this using sed or cut

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Use cut   cut -c6-   This prints each line of the input starting at column 6  the first column is 1

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awk   print substr  0 6    file

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sed  s      5      file dat

User · Answer

sed  s      5      file dat worked like a charm for me

[linux] Delete the first five characters on any line of a text file in Linux with sed

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