[TriLUG] Need some help parsing a file

William Sutton william at trilug.org
Sun Dec 29 22:48:18 EST 2013


still relies on file listings starting in column 40.  You really want 
awk+sed for this sort of thing, but I never learned awk.  So...

cat filename.txt |perl -pe "s/^.+[\d,]+\s+//"

:-)

William Sutton

On Sun, 29 Dec 2013, Peter Neilson wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 21:13:17 -0500, Dewey Hylton <plug at hyltown.com> wrote:
>
>> try this:
>> 
>> cut -c40- < filename.txt
>
> Doesn't use sed, but it's better than mine.
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