On Wed, October 15, 2008 10:48 am, Jerry Geis wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Instead of using cut -f use cut -c19-