Remove first column from file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,

This is how data in test.txt file
| |abc|zxcv|xy12|
| |cvs|zzvc|a23p|

How can remove first column.
abc|zxcv|xy12|
cvs|zzvc|a23p|

Thanks
srimitta

2

One way:

sed 's/^| |//' file > newfile
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sed 's/^| |//' infile
4

Perfect it's working.

Thanks
srimitta

5 
cat test.txt |cut -f3,4,5,6 -d'|'

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How can this be achieved using awk?

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awk '{sub(/\| \|/,"")}1' infile

awk -F'\| \|' '{print $2}' infile

awk -F'\| \|' '{$0=$2}1' infile
7

Thanks,

cat test.txt |awk '{sub(/\| \|/,"")}1'
8

Or:

cut -d\| -f3- infile
9

This should work too

cut test.txt -f3- -d'|'