[SOLVED] Bash sed replace everything in a textfile until the apperance of the first alphabetic character

Issue

Can anybody help me with this? I have a bunch of text-files, that I want to alter. They all start with something else but a normal alphabetical character. I now want to delete everything before the appearnace of a alphabetical character, so that they start with their title,keeping everything else following intact.

here's an example:

=================================================================================

TITLE OF SONG

Text text text
Text text text

ReFrain:
Text text text

written 16.08.1998

And I want it to look like this

TITLE OF SONG

Text text text
Text text text

ReFrain:
Text text text

written 16.08.1998

I tried doing it like this:

for f in *.txt; do sed 's/^.*[a-zA-Z]/^.[a-zA-Z]/g'; done

It is not working

I'm fairly new to this, so please bear with me.

best Stef

Solution

Perl is handy here:

perl -0777 -i -pe 's/^[^[:alpha:]]+//s' file ...

The -0777 option causes perl to slurp the entire file into the default variable,
and the s/// command removes all leading non-alpha characters.

Answered By - glenn jackman

Answer Checked By - Katrina (WPSolving Volunteer)