> 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 why not simply cut -b10- foo > bar t