How to Delete the First Blank of the First Col?

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi to all.

In the following example, how can I delete the first blank of the first col? (using shell scripting)

 first second third fourth
 fifth sixth seventh eighth

Thank's for reading.

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sed 's/^ //' infile >outfile
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cut -c2- input > output
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Thank you both. Both solutions works.

5

Or:

awk '$1=$1' file
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Actually I prefer don't use AWK. Anyway, thanks for your reply.