Try:
cut -c2- filename > filename.new
SJM writes:
>Hello, I have a file that has over 6500 lines of code I want to use but
>almost every line has a '+' in front of it. The code is from a patch
>file that I couldn't get to patch so I am doing it manually. Can anyone
>help me with a simple unix script that will filter out these '+'s?
>Maybe to read in the first character of every line and if it is a '+'
>then delete it, otherwise move on to the next line. Or does anyone know
>an easier way?
>
>-Shaw
>
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