Masterminder
Reputation: 1135
Print/Obtain first character of a line in a text file in UNIX
Was wondering how you print/obtain the first character in a text file in unix.
i.e say "9 textfile.txt" would return 9
thx
Upvotes: 1
Views: 8804
Answers (1)
kev
Reputation: 161954
You can use head to get first char of file:
head -c 1 file.txt
If you want first char of every line:
grep -o ^. file.txt
Or
cut -c 1 file.txt
Upvotes: 8
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