[CentOS] script question

Hi all,

I am trying to create a script that takes an entire file, drops the first 19 characters from each line and creates a new file.

I am missing something easy but I am not seeing it.

Jerry

--- I tried the script below but did not work.

rm output.txt cat test.txt | \ while read LINE do newline=`echo $LINE | cut -f 19-` echo $newline >> output.txt done

test.txt is below 10-Oct-08 08:14 am 10 10-Oct-08 08:20 am 20 10-Oct-08 08:24 am 30 10-Oct-08 08:29 am 40 10-Oct-08 08:34 am 50 10-Oct-08 08:39 am 60 10-Oct-08 08:44 am 80 10-Oct-08 08:49 am 10 10-Oct-08 08:54 am 10 10-Oct-08 08:56 am 10