Hello Jerry-
Simply change the line:
newline=`echo $LINE | cut -f 19-`
to this:
newline=`echo $LINE | cut -c 19-`
You want to cut based on 'c'haracters, not 'f'ields. :-)
Tim Nelson
Systems/Network Support
Rockbochs Inc.
(218)727-4332 x105
----- "Jerry Geis" <geisj at pagestation.com> 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
>
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