I need a one-liner to remove the first five characters on any line of a text file. How can I do that with sed?
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I need a one-liner to remove the first five characters on any line of a text file. How can I do that with sed?
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replace (“s”, substitute) beginning-of-line then 5 characters (“.”) with nothing.
There are more compact or flexible ways to write this using sed or cut.