Remove First Word in text stream

Question

How would I remove the first word from each line of text in a stream? i.e.

$cat myfile 
some text 1
some text 2
some text 3

what I want i

Answer 1

To remove the first word, until space no matter how many spaces exist, use: sed 's/[^ ]* *//'

Example:

$ cat myfile 
some text 1
some  text 2
some     text 3

$ cat myfile | sed 's/[^ ]* *//'
text 1
text 2
text 3