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Using AWK to Trim 3rd Column of Tab-delimited text file - need help
Hey guys, I am running a cronjob that downloads a datafeed text file and I need to trim the first 3 characters from the 3rd column data (excluding the header). This is what I have so far: awk 'NR==1{print;next}{$3=substr($3,4)}1' OFS="\t" file > newfile Column Zero is Product Name, which has...
