Question

How would I remove the first word from each line of text in a stream?

For example,

$ cat myfile
some text 1
some text 2
some text 3

I want:

$ cat myfile | magiccommand
text 1
text 2
text 3

How would I go about this using Bash? I could use awk '{print $2 $3 $4 $5 ....}', but that’s messy and would result in extra spaces for all null arguments. I was thinking that sed might be able to do this, but I could not find any examples of this.

Answer 1

Based on your example text,

cut -d' ' -f2- yourFile

should do the job.