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ZER.SHITMAKER
 PostPosted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:19 pm   

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Dear everyone,

I'm looking for a very basic trick:

Cut the first letter (or special char) of each line of a file (dictionary).

I tried the cut command but it doesn't seems to work.

Awk one?

Thanks.
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Patsie
 PostPosted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:25 pm   
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Code:
cut -c 2- inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt

You can't use the same file for both input and output at the same time.
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ZER.SHITMAKER
 PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:36 pm   

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thx
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jeo
 PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:02 am   
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Sorry, I know it's after the fact but I <3 sed:
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sed 's/^.//g' inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt
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Patsie
 PostPosted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:05 pm   
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A good solution as well although the '/g(lobal)' option is a bit unnecessary (there will be no more than 1 beginning of line).
Added benefit is that you can use 'sed -i' and replace everything inline and not need a second file for (temporary) output.
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jeo
 PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:56 am   
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Patsie wrote:
A good solution as well although the '/g(lobal)' option is a bit unnecessary (there will be no more than 1 beginning of line).
Added benefit is that you can use 'sed -i' and replace everything inline and not need a second file for (temporary) output.


All true! *headdesk*
My reply was too hasty :)
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jsz
 PostPosted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 6:33 pm   
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ZER.SHITMAKER wrote:
Awk one?

Code:
awk 'sub(/^./, _)' file > file.tmp && mv file.tmp file

Here, we remove the first character of each line of the file called « file », then redirect the result output to a file called « file.tmp », and finally rename it to "its" original name.

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Patsie wrote:
Added benefit is that you can use 'sed -i' and replace everything inline and not need a second file for (temporary) output.


In fact, sed(1) uses temporary files, but it's transparent.
That's why I'd use this ed(1) solution instead:

Code:
ed -s file <<< $'s/^.//\nw'
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