Remove characters between "-".

[hack3rcon]

Hello,
I have a lot of names with Date characters front of them:

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Char1   2020-10-28
Char2   2020-10-28
Char3   2020-10-28
Char4   2020-10-16
Char5   2020-10-28
Char6   2020-10-26


I want to have a Bash script that remove all these dates.

Thank you.

[Bloom]

If data.txt contains your data, just do:

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cut -d " " -f 1 data.txt


If you want to save the output, add '>newfile.txt' after data.txt.

[hack3rcon]

If data.txt contains your data, just do:

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cut -d " " -f 1 data.txt


If you want to save the output, add '>newfile.txt' after data.txt.

Not worked.

[Bloom]

If in front of the dates, a tab is present, replace the -d " " by -d\t or remove the option (tab is the default separator for cut).

[hack3rcon]

If in front of the dates, a tab is present, replace the -d " " by -d\t or remove the option (tab is the default separator for cut).

Thank you.
It was a tab and

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cut -f 1 "File Name"

solve it.