How do I truncate words?

[Christian Aguilar Varga]

Hi, happy new year to every body!!
I'm programming in shell. But I have a small problem.
I want a command or a program to truncate words, for example:

AS-CHIMBOTE ... I want to get .... CHIMBOTE
AS-RIMAC ...... I want to get .... RIMAC
AS-PIURA ...... I want to get .... PIURA
AS-ICA ........ I want to get .... ICA
AS-SANISIDRO-2 I want to get .... SANISIDRO-2
AS-VILLA-MONT-2 I want to get .... VILLA-MONT-2

I want to truncate the 3 first characters of every word.
There are words that have more than one dash(-).

Please, I need a command to truncate words.

Thank you very much!!

[A. Clay Stephenson]

echo "AS-RIMAC" | cut -c 4-

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

See if this works

awk '{print substr($0,4)}' your_file

-Sri

[Robert Thorneycroft]

You could also use sed

sed 's/...//' datafile

Regards,

Robert Thorneycroft

[Rodney Hills]

Within the korn shell try-

x="AS-SANISIDRO-2"
y=${x#*-}
echo $y

will display-
SANISIDRO-2

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Wilfred Chau_1]

sed s/^AS\-//

[Robert Thorneycroft]

Wilfred,
Just a minor point, whilst your command will be correct for the examples given it will not truncate the first three characters of every word as specified in the question IF any other examples do not start with AS-.

In this case your command will fail so the solution I mentioned above will be better as it will truncate the first three characters of every word, no matter what they are.

Of course if every line does start AS- your command will work without any problems however.

Regards,
Robert Thorneycroft