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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting remove first few characters from each line Post 302636133 by ratheeshjulk on Monday 7th of May 2012 05:22:13 AM
Old 05-07-2012
remove first few characters from each line
Hi,

I have a file with lines like below.
I need to remove first few characters from each line until a date format is found.

Code:
05/06/12 20:47:02 GUMGUY@98.192.174.74{42B42A72AC955F5926621273E3A15059.tomcat2}TP-Processor15 LogExchUsage: ERROR:
05/06/12 20:47:02 GUMGUY@98.192.174.74{42B42A72AC955F5926621273E3A15059.tomcat2}TP-Processor15 LogExchUsage: ERROR:
51129.77605/02/12 11:44:32 NEARRIDGIDAGHLAR@98.251.109.147{E889D36D2B2082668147CB1E0A47A91B.tomcat1}TP-Processor26 LogExchUsage:
18797.45204/13/12 06:55:40 BYE67BYE@96.254.176.116{3FC897AF82897CF3683FE06D6A21997E.tomcat8}TP-Processor18 LogExchUsage: ERROR:
Request for getNextPage.................04/26/12 06:44:20 BAOBEIBUNNY@96.242.252.247{2E29DD4B985715A69EA18021E6EB088B.tomcat4}TP-Processor29 LogExchUsage:

I need to remove first few characters from each line until a date format is found.
out put should be like this.

Code:
05/06/12 20:47:02 GUMGUY@98.192.174.74{42B42A72AC955F5926621273E3A15059.tomcat2}TP-Processor15 LogExchUsage: ERROR: 
05/06/12 20:47:02 GUMGUY@98.192.174.74{42B42A72AC955F5926621273E3A15059.tomcat2}TP-Processor15 LogExchUsage: ERROR:
05/02/12 11:44:32 NEARRIDGIDAGHLAR@98.251.109.147{E889D36D2B2082668147CB1E0A47A91B.tomcat1}TP-Processor26 LogExchUsage:
04/13/12 06:55:40 BYE67BYE@96.254.176.116{3FC897AF82897CF3683FE06D6A21997E.tomcat8}TP-Processor18 LogExchUsage: ERROR:
04/26/12 06:44:20 BAOBEIBUNNY@96.242.252.247{2E29DD4B985715A69EA18021E6EB088B.tomcat4}TP-Processor29 LogExchUsage:

Any clue...
 

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iso_8859-5

ISO_8859-5(7)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						     ISO_8859-5(7)

NAME

       iso_8859-5 - ISO 8859-5 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal

DESCRIPTION

       The  ISO  8859  standard  includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV).  ISO 8859-5 encodes the
       Cyrillic characters used in many East European languages.

   ISO 8859 alphabets
       The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:

       ISO 8859-1    West European languages (Latin-1)
       ISO 8859-2    Central and East European languages (Latin-2)
       ISO 8859-3    Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)
       ISO 8859-4    Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)
       ISO 8859-5    Latin/Cyrillic
       ISO 8859-6    Latin/Arabic
       ISO 8859-7    Latin/Greek
       ISO 8859-8    Latin/Hebrew
       ISO 8859-9    Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)
       ISO 8859-10   Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)
       ISO 8859-11   Latin/Thai
       ISO 8859-13   Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)
       ISO 8859-14   Celtic (Latin-8)
       ISO 8859-15   West European languages (Latin-9)
       ISO 8859-16   Romanian (Latin-10)

   ISO 8859-5 characters
       The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-5 that are printable and unlisted in the ascii(7) manual page.

       Oct   Dec   Hex	 Char	Description
       ------------------------------------------------------------------------
       240   160   A0		NO-BREAK SPACE
       241   161   A1		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IO
       242   162   A2		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DJE
       243   163   A3		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GJE
       244   164   A4		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER UKRAINIAN IE
       245   165   A5		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZE
       246   166   A6		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
				BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
       247   167   A7		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YI
       250   168   A8		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER JE
       251   169   A9		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER LJE
       252   170   AA		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER NJE
       253   171   AB		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TSHE
       254   172   AC		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KJE
       255   173   AD		SOFT HYPHEN
       256   174   AE		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT U
       257   175   AF		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DZHE
       260   176   B0		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A
       261   177   B1		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BE
       262   178   B2		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER VE
       263   179   B3		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE
       264   180   B4		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DE
       265   181   B5		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IE
       266   182   B6		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE
       267   183   B7		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZE
       270   184   B8		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER I
       271   185   B9		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHORT I
       272   186   BA		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER KA
       273   187   BB		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EL
       274   188   BC		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EM

       275   189   BD		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EN
       276   190   BE		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER O
       277   191   BF		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER PE
       300   192   C0		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ER
       301   193   C1		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ES
       302   194   C2		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TE
       303   195   C3		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER U
       304   196   C4		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER EF
       305   197   C5		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HA
       306   198   C6		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TSE
       307   199   C7		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER CHE
       310   200   C8		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHA
       311   201   C9		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SHCHA
       312   202   CA		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER HARD SIGN
       313   203   CB		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YERU
       314   204   CC		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SOFT SIGN
       315   205   CD		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER E
       316   206   CE		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YU
       317   207   CF		CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER YA
       320   208   D0		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A
       321   209   D1		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BE
       322   210   D2		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER VE
       323   211   D3		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE
       324   212   D4		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DE
       325   213   D5		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE
       326   214   D6		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZHE
       327   215   D7		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ZE
       330   216   D8		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER I
       331   217   D9		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT I
       332   218   DA		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KA
       333   219   DB		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EL
       334   220   DC		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EM
       335   221   DD		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EN
       336   222   DE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER O
       337   223   DF		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PE
       340   224   E0		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ER
       341   225   E1		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ES
       342   226   E2		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TE
       343   227   E3		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER U
       344   228   E4		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EF
       345   229   E5		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HA
       346   230   E6		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TSE
       347   231   E7		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER CHE
       350   232   E8		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHA
       351   233   E9		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHCHA
       352   234   EA		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER HARD SIGN
       353   235   EB		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YERU
       354   236   EC		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SOFT SIGN
       355   237   ED		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER E
       356   238   EE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YU
       357   239   EF		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YA
       360   240   F0		NUMERO SIGN
       361   241   F1		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IO
       362   242   F2		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DJE
       363   243   F3		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GJE
       364   244   F4		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER UKRAINIAN IE
       365   245   F5		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZE
       366   246   F6		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
       367   247   F7		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YI
       370   248   F8		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER JE
       371   249   F9		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER LJE
       372   250   FA		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER NJE
       373   251   FB		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TSHE
       374   252   FC		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KJE
       375   253   FD	  S	SECTION SIGN

       376   254   FE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT U
       377   255   FF		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZHE

SEE ALSO

       ascii(7), charsets(7), cp1251(7), koi8-r(7), koi8-u(7), utf-8(7)

COLOPHON

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       latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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