Multicharacter delimiter cut

Question

My file looks like:

19-04-05 08:45:22,643: INFO  [ByrioThread] [] kks.connectorLog: Very important information

I want to cut it using a two character delimiter ": ", but with field definition "field 2 and all next". This would be a cut command as:

cut -f2- -d': '

so the output would be:

INFO  [ByrioThread] [] kks.connectorLog: Very important information

however cut does not support multicharacter delimiter. Therefore answer given here How to use cut with multiple character delimiter? unix with awk does not work.

Any help appreciated!

Answer 1

This grep might work for you:

grep -Po ': \K.*' file

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Or a pure bash solution using parameter expansion:

while IFS= read -r line; do
   printf '%s\n' "${line#*: }"
done < file