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Old 02-12-2012
how to use "cut" or "awk" or "sed" to remove a string

logs:

[Sun Feb 12 10:36:20 2012] "/home/abc/public_html/index.php"
[Sun Feb 12 10:36:20 2012] "/home/abc/public_html/index.php"
[Sun Feb 12 10:36:20 2012] "/home/xyz/public_html/index.php"
[Sun Feb 12 10:36:21 2012] "/home/xyz/public_html/index.php"
[Sun Feb 12 10:36:21 2012] "/home/xyz/public_html/index.php"

how to use "cut" or "awk" or "sed" to get the following result:

[Sun Feb 12 10:36:20 2012] abc
[Sun Feb 12 10:36:20 2012] abc
[Sun Feb 12 10:36:20 2012] xyz
[Sun Feb 12 10:36:21 2012] xyz
[Sun Feb 12 10:36:21 2012] xyz
# 2  
Old 02-12-2012
Code:
nawk -F/ '{print $1$3}' log|tr -d \"

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# 3  
Old 02-12-2012
nice! it works.
# 4  
Old 02-12-2012
Code:
cat log | cut -d/ -f1,3 | tr -d \"/

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# 5  
Old 02-12-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by psychognite
cat log | cut -d/ -f1,3 | tr -d \"/
Thr better version of this might be replacing cat by input redirection < operator .
# 6  
Old 02-12-2012
One command:
Code:
awk -F'[/"]*' '{print $1$3}' log

# 7  
Old 02-12-2012
Hi

can you please explain the below part:
Code:
awk -F'[/"]*'

Thanks

---------- Post updated at 07:27 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:05 PM ----------

Pure bash solution for interest:
Code:
pandeeswaran@ubuntu:~$ while read line; do line1=`echo $line|cut -d/ -f1,3|tr -d \"/`; echo $line1; done < log
[Sun Feb 12 10:36:20 2012] abc
[Sun Feb 12 10:36:20 2012] abc
[Sun Feb 12 10:36:20 2012] xyz
[Sun Feb 12 10:36:21 2012] xyz
[Sun Feb 12 10:36:21 2012] xyz

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