Scripting

[Arman Mahboobi]

Hi,
I would like to display all the contents of a particular file apart from the first field in the file. Cut does not help me and I am not familiar with Awk, could anyone help please.

[Patrick Wallek]

What's the delimiter of the file? Can you give us a few sample lines?

[Arman Mahboobi]

The first field is a pager number followed by a space and text after that.

[Patrick Chim · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Just type,

cat | cut -f2- -d' ' >

Regards,
Patrick

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Patrick, why use 'cat as an extra unneeded process? Use input redirection: '< file'

perl solution

# perl -pe's/^\s*\d+\s*//' file

[Patrick Chim]

Hi,

Sorry about that,

it should be

cut -f2- -d' ' >

Regards,
Patrick

[Arman Mahboobi]

Does not matter, either way will work.

Thankyou very much!