[TriLUG] Need some help parsing a file

[Dewey Hylton]

> From: "Brian Blater" <brb.lists at gmail.com>
> To: "TriLUG List" <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 9:04:16 PM
> Subject: [TriLUG] Need some help parsing a file
> 
> 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

try this:

cut -c40- < filename.txt