SED

Oh the power of sed

Here is how to remove the first certain number of characters

sed 's/^.........//' test2 > test3 where each . is a character.

also

cut -c10- test2

one way to cut the back is
rev filename | cut -b 2- | rev
which reverses the file, cuts the first two (which is the back) and then reverses it back

or you can use
cut -b 1-2 --complement bazaar.txt
this cuts from 1 to 2 (or the first two here) so if it was 5-13 it would cut the 5th to the 13th