From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-04-14T14:42:07+09:00
Subject: Re: how to delete the first two characters of each row?

On 14.04.2010 03:06, Albert Schlef wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> At your favorite shell prompt:
>>
>> $ cut -c 3- /home/pt/test/mtp.txt>| /home/pt/test/mtpback.txt
>
> Where is ">|" explained? Looks useful. I did "man bash", and I can find
> about three mentions of ">|" there, but it's not explained.

This is even part of the POSIX standard.  I don't have the link handy 
and I believe you must register with them but reading and downloading 
the standard is free.

> (BTW, removing columns can be done in Vim too, it has a "visual block"
> mode, which can be entered with Control-v.)

Cool, thanks for the hint!  In vi(m) I would probably have used 
":%s/^..//". :-)

Kind regards

	robert

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