log file noise

Willem van der Walt wvdwalt at csir.co.za
Sat Apr 18 10:52:36 EDT 2020


Hi,
Something like tail -50 /var/log/syslog|cut -f5- -d' '
man cut for details, but basicly, it says show all columns starting with 
column 5 where columns are delimmited by space.
HTH, Willem


On Sat, 18 Apr 2020, Chris Zenchenko wrote:

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> Not exactly a Speakup issue but I'm wondering if anyone has figured out a
> way to read through log files minus the date and time.
> I'd like to be able to run through a file without all that extra info at the
> start of each entry.
> If I find something important then of course I want to know when but for
> just skimming through a file all that extra speech is making me crazy.
> Ok, more crazy than I am already!
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