Help need to cut the first word of a line in text file

bubbly · June 26, 2009, 5:38pm

Hi All,

I would like help with a script which can get rid of the first work of all lines in text file.

File 1

The name is Scott.

Output : name is Scott

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Hi ALL

There is typo error in my previous post.

I would like help with a script which can get rid of the first word of all lines in text file.

Scott · June 26, 2009, 6:28pm

Hi.

You could try

cut -d" " -f2- file

kshji · June 27, 2009, 1:35pm

Using regexp, replace using nothing start of line all those chars which are not space.
Example done using sed.

sed "s/^[^ ]* //" file

clx · June 27, 2009, 3:31pm

the above might be useful.