Shell Programming and Scripting

You could also try any of the following awk scripts:

Code:

awk '{sub(/.*:/, "", $1);print}' file
awk '{$1 = substr($1, 16);print}' file
awk '{$1 = substr($1, length($1) - 3);print}' file

One or all of them might work for you depending on how closely your actual input matches the sample input you provided.

And some more for fun:

Code:

awk '{$1=x}sub(/:/,x)' FS=: OFS=: file
awk -F'^.*:' '{print $2}' file
awk -F: 'sub($1 FS,x)' file

The latter happens to work, because the . (any character) matches the literal dot..

sed not allowed either?

Code:

sed 's/[^:]*://' file

Code:

awk -F":" '{print $2,$NF}'

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Code:

awk -F":" '{print $2,$NF}' file

Unfortunately, unlike many of the other proposals that have been made in this thread, this suggestion adds an unwanted trailing space to to the output for input lines that contain one colon character, and deletes all colons from the desired output when there are two or more colon characters on an input line. If there are more than two colons on an input line, this code drops even more of the desired output.