Line character stripper (cut first N chars)

Strip the first N (or last N) characters from every line, click on a live character ruler to pick the exact cut point, or strip log prefixes.

Strip first N chars (start of line)

Strip last N chars (end of line)

Strip before delimiter (optional)

Quick N:

Trim remaining whitespace Remove empty lines Keep lines shorter than N untouched

Click a character on line 1 to set N:Cutting first 25 chars

Input

Output

Visual Cut Preview (first 12 lines)Strikethrough = removed · Normal = kept

Equivalent Terminal One-Liner (Clipboard Pipe)

pbpaste | cut -c 26- | pbcopy

Install Linux clipboard tool: sudo apt-get install -y xclip (Debian/Ubuntu) · sudo dnf install -y xclip (Fedora/RHEL) · sudo apk add xclip (Alpine)

Stripping timestamps, line numbers & log prefixes

When copying logs from Kubernetes (kubectl logs --timestamps), CloudWatch, Grafana Loki, or numbered stack traces, every line starts with a fixed-width timestamp or gutter prefix. Set Strip first N chars—or click any character cell in the line 1 character ruler—to slice off the exact prefix across all lines at once.

Variable-length pod prefixes: If lines start with variable pod names like api-7d9c8-x2k | 2026-10-30..., enter | in Strip before delimiter first, then use Strip first N chars to remove the timestamp that follows.
Unicode-safe slicing: Character counting operates on full Unicode code points rather than raw UTF-16 code units, so multi-byte symbols and emojis are never split in half.