remove first few words from a line

shellscripter · #1 (**permalink**) 10-07-2008

Hi All,

Sample:

4051 Oct 4 10:03:36 AM 2008: TEST: end of testcase Checking Interface after reload, result fail

I need to remove first 10 words of the above line and output should be like

Checking Interface after reload, result fail

Please help me in this regard.

Thanks,

era · #2 (**permalink**) 10-07-2008

If all the first ten fields are separated by a single space,

Code:

cut -d ' ' -f11- file

If the first ten characters will always contain exactly two colons, it might be simpler to split on those.

Code:

cut -d: -f3- file

(This would leave a leading space.)

stanleypane · #3 (**permalink**) 10-07-2008

If "testcase" always precedes the data you want, you can use awk and specify a delimeter like so:

Code:

awk -F'testcase ' '{print $2}'

shellscripter · #4 (**permalink**) 10-07-2008

Thanks for all the response. I will check the above commands and update the thread soon.

shellscripter · #5 (**permalink**) 10-08-2008

Thanks era and stanleypane. Its working fine.

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