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Delete the first known character in a string with sed

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Mar 15, 202652674 views

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How does one delete the first known character in a string with sed? For example, say I want to delete the first character (which is @) in the string "@ABCDEFG1234" I want sed to verify whether "@" exists as the first character. If so, it should delete the character.

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There's no need to capture and replace. This replaces the character when it's first in the string, with nothing. Thus, deleting it.

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