Trying to remove the first column of a document.

I'm using this command below to remove the first column of a document:

%s/^[^\t]*\zs\t[^\t]*\ze//g 

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but it says command not found. Any idea?

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Here's the quickest way to remove the first column:

1. Press gg to go to the first character in the document.
2. Hit Ctrl+V to enter visual block mode.
3. Hit G (that is, shift-g) to go to the end of the document
4. Hit x to delete the first column.

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I like the block selection solution of @Peter, but if you want to use substitution you need this command:

:%s/^.//

Let's analyze why this works:

• :%s exec a substitution on all the document
• /^./ select the first character after the start of the line
• / and replace it with... nothing.

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If I understand you correctly, this should do the job:

:%s/^[^\t]//

The command removes all leading characters that are not a tabulator.

Alternatively, if you're editing a tabulator separated values document and want to remove all "columns" before the first tabulator, then this should do it for you:

%s/^[^\t]*\t//

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The below command worked for me:

:%s/^\w*//