Re: QOTD (question of the day)

[Ken Hagan <ken@alacrity-it.com>]

cat <file> | cut -c 5-80
or something like that will give you columns 5 through 80.

cut is your friend.



Quoting dsavage@peaknet.net:

> I'm grinding toward a May 1 deadline to begin 90 days of operational
> testing for Mozilla here at the base. I won't bore you with why we're
> undertaking a ratification of the obvious.
> 
> One thing I'm breaking new ground|wind with is something called a
> Configuration Customization Kit for Mozilla. The CCK appears to be the Son
> of Mission Control Desktop for Netscape. MCD was the way you could build a
> master set of preference files for old Netscape and push them out to users
> from a web site every time they started their browsers. Great tool for
> maintaining configuration control on a very large enterprise basis.
> 
> I've unearthed a bunch of source code for a beta of CCK written for
> Netscape 6.2 and last updated about a year ago. Trouble is, I've got
> hundreds of files with line number prefixes. I'm looking for a grinder
> script that will remove the first four (or five) characters of every line
> in these files:
> 
> NNN sourcecodetextsourcecodetextsourcecodetext
> NNN sourcecodetextsourcecodetextsourcecodetext
> ^^^^
> ||||
> I want to strip away these line numbers. Depending on the number of lines
> in a file, there are either three digits or four followed by a space.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a sed/awk/perl/whatever quickie to do the job? Nothing
> fancy. The only criteria is that it be faster than my fingers typing
> endless cycles of '4 X downarrow' in vi. :-P
> 
> --Doc
> 
> 
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Ken Hagan
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http://www.alacrity-it.com/
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