all inclusive replacement

[segment]

Hey all. I have 4500+ files all close to being the same. I'm trying to do an inplace edit for one variable but I can't seem to finesse it...

I have the following line inside every file

238 SOMETHING email:somewhere@someplace.com MAIL/4.2\r

The number 238 is always changing and I need to remove those numbers altogether to leave:

SOMETHING email:somewhere@someplace.com MAIL/4.2\r

Most of the changes I've made using awk, sed and perl (perl -pi -e 's/something/something else/g') but I can't find a way around this one... Remember the numbers change so in on instance it may be:

238 SOMETHING email:somewhere@someplace.com MAIL4.2\r

The next it may be:

1444 SOMETHING email:somewhere@someplace.com MAIL4.2\r

Any thoughts in this?

perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(40*2),sqrt(7600),(unpack(c,Q)-3+1+3+3-7),oct(104),10,oct(101));'

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

What about:

s/^\d+\s+//;

Trojan.

 

[sun4u]

This Works:

perl -pi -e 's/^\d+\s+(SOMETHING.*)/$1/g'