[CentOS] script question

Wed Oct 15 14:48:54 UTC 2008
Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com>

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

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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