[TriLUG] Need some help parsing a file

Brian Blater brb.lists at gmail.com
Sun Dec 29 21:04:16 EST 2013


This has never been my forte and just can't seem to figure out what I need
to do.

I've got a file that basically has a directory listing. I need to parse out
everything but the filenames. The format of the document is basically like
this:

11/09/2013  11:49 AM         7,887,098 this is filename 1.txt
11/05/2013  08:09 PM        11,652,690 this is filename 2.sh

Basically I need to strip the date, time and bytes and just leave the
filename. Filenames will have spaces and various characters, but it is
always after the bytes and spaces are what separate everything.

This is on an UbuntuStudio 12.04 box.

I figure I could do something with sed or awk or similar, but I just don't
have a good understanding of them and my google searches did not prove
helpful (probably not using the right terms in the search).

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Brian


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