I am trying to use the unxutils in a script I am writing and I am having a problem. Since this is where I heard of the Unxutils, I thought I'd ask my question here.
The main problem is that I am not familiar with the tools, so this is probably a no-brainer.
I have a file that is downloaded on a regular basis, but no matter how I download it, the first line of the file is always prepended by 3 garbled characters (). What I want to do is simply use sed to remove those first three characters and output the remainder of the file. Anyone?
I googled for "sed delete line" and got
http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/sed1line.txt, among others.
I suggest you figure out the syntax for sed "delete line" when a line starts with" " those characters will probably need to be escaped with \ within the /pattern/, and the pattern anchored at BOL with "^":
/'^\�\�\�'/d
Another way to skin that cat, from the above page:
# delete the first 10 lines of a file sed '1,10d'
Len
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