What is a unix command for deleting the first N characters of a line?

Question

For example, I might want to:

tail -f logfile | grep org.springframework | 

I was thinking that

Answer 1

sed 's/^.\{5\}//' logfile 

and you replace 5 by the number you want...it should do the trick...

EDIT if for each line sed 's/^.\{5\}//g' logfile