Need to remove the count from the output when using “uniq -c” command

Question

I am trying to read a file and sort it by number of occurrences of a particular field. Suppose i want to find out the most repeated date from a log file then i use uniq -c o

Answer 1

Instead of cut -d' ' -f2, try

awk '{$1="";print}'

Maybe you need to remove one more blank in the beginning:

awk '{$1="";print}' | sed 's/^.//'

or completly with sed, preserving original whitspace:

sed -r 's/^[^0-9]*[0-9]+//'