Hide timestamp from journalctl output

Jbn1233
1 min readJul 23, 2023

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Sometimes output have a long line and I need to hide some info.

Before:

$ sudo journalctl --no-pager -u coredns --since='10 min ago'
-- Logs begin at Sun 2023-07-23 09:48:00 +07, end at Sun 2023-07-23 10:10:31 +07. --
Jul 23 10:00:31 master1 coredns[23679]: [INFO] 127.0.0.1 A master1.cluster.local. IN 39 - 0.000146552s
Jul 23 10:00:36 master1 coredns[23679]: [INFO] 127.0.0.1 A master1.cluster.local. IN 39 - 0.000205899s
Jul 23 10:00:41 master1 coredns[23679]: [INFO] 127.0.0.1 A master1. IN 25 NXDOMAIN 0.000083667s
Jul 23 10:00:41 master1 coredns[23679]: [INFO] 127.0.0.1 AAAA master1. IN 25 NOERROR 0.000045172s
Jul 23 10:00:41 master1 coredns[23679]: [INFO] 127.0.0.1 PTR 1.6.3.2.6.1.8.7.4.e.6.6.8.7.4.a.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.8.e.f.ip6.arpa. IN 90 NXDOMAIN 0.000088299s
Jul 23 10:02:12 master1 coredns[23679]: [INFO] 127.0.0.1 A usage.projectcalico.org. IN 52 NOERROR 0.074655438s
Jul 23 10:02:12 master1 coredns[23679]: [INFO] 127.0.0.1 AAAA usage.projectcalico.org. IN 52 NOERROR 0.000218793s

After:

$ sudo journalctl --no-pager -u coredns --since='10 min ago'| sed 's/.*\]: //'
-- Logs begin at Sun 2023-07-23 09:48:00 +07, end at Sun 2023-07-23 10:10:33 +07. --
[INFO] 127.0.0.1 A master1.cluster.local. IN 39 - 0.000205899s
[INFO] 127.0.0.1 A master1. IN 25 NXDOMAIN 0.000083667s
[INFO] 127.0.0.1 AAAA master1. IN 25 NOERROR 0.000045172s
[INFO] 127.0.0.1 PTR 1.6.3.2.6.1.8.7.4.e.6.6.8.7.4.a.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.8.e.f.ip6.arpa. IN 90 NXDOMAIN 0.000088299s
[INFO] 127.0.0.1 A usage.projectcalico.org. IN 52 NOERROR 0.074655438s
[INFO] 127.0.0.1 AAAA usage.projectcalico.org. IN 52 NOERROR 0.000218793s

Now you know what to do.

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