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Old school — you could use dd:

dd if=A_FILE bs=1c skip=3

The input file is A_FILE, the block size is 1 character (byte), skip the first 3 'blocks' (bytes). There are other ways too:

sed '1s/^...//' A_FILE

This works if there are 3 or more characters on the first line.

tail -c +4 A_FILE

And you could use Perl, Python and so on too.