line numbering

[Ian McClement]

Thanks Dan, format is like:
1 kfhgvhgv kfjkhfhb
2 if kfjn
3 vkjnfkjvnjnk
4 lkjkfjh
.......
99 for each in
100 do
101 jgkjghk jghjjg ljfdhk;
102 done
.......
999 if adflkjh
1000 afjhkjfh
1001 kfjvhkdlfh

etc.

I have tried cut from 2nd field on but loses formatting.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Ian

[RikTytgat · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try this:
cat file | sed -e 's/^[[:digit:]]\{1,\}[[:space:]]\(.*\)$/\1/'

This even keeps indentation after the numbers.

Bye,
Rik.

[Sandor Horvath_2]

Hi !

What is mean 2nd field ?

real 2nd >
.. | awk ' { print $2 } '

or cut number >
.. | awk ' { print sustr($0,index($0," ")+1)}'

regards, Saa

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi Ian,

sed 's/^[[:digit:]]*//' < from_file > to_file
should work as you want. It simply supresses all digits at the beginning of every line.

Best regards,

Dan

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