sed -e 's/^.\{99\}\(.\{7\}\).*/\1/g'
That will also work
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:13 PM, David Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote:
> dd if=test.txt bs=1 skip=99 count=7 2>/dev/null; echo -e
>
> You can skip the '2>/dev/null' if you don't mind seeing the "7+0
> records out" appended to your data
>
> If you are not outputting to an interactive prompt, (like you are
> capturing the result of this into a variable, then remove the 'echo
> -e' it's just to make it look better at the prompt. (Same with the
> '2>/dev/null')
>
> On 8/29/2008, "Chris Penn" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Rewording the question. I need characters from 100-106, so now I need
> >to cut everything from 107 on from each line.
> >any ideas?
> >
> >Chris...
> >
> >On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> K, I figured out how to do this with cut.
> >> cut -b 1-2 --complement file
> >>
> >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Chris Penn <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>> I have a file, I want to create a new file that goes the my file and
> >>> delete the first 99 characters, including spaces, from each line.
> >>> How do I do this?
> >>>
> >>> Chris...
> >>> --
> >>> "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to
> >>> be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity."
> >>> -Roger Penrose
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to
> >> be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity."
> >> -Roger Penrose
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >--
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> >be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity."
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