Question

I am trying to trim this, which is stored in a variable called $line.

[2012-06-18 10:37:09,026 (there is a lot of text after this, i just cut it out)

I am new to shell scripting and this is the code that i have

errortime= $line | cut -c2-10;

it is giving me an error, what is the correct code to pull the date out of the variable $line.

Answer 1

did you want:

errortime=`echo $line | cut -c2-20`

instead?

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Edit:
If you are using ksh, that line needs to look like this:

errortime=$(echo $line | cut -c2-20)