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

If you want to work with the count field downstream, following command will reformat it to a 'pipe friendly' tab delimited format without the left padding:

 .. | sort | uniq -c | sed -r 's/^ +([0-9]+) /\1\t/'

For the original task it is a bit of an overkill, but after reformatting, cut can be used to remove the field, as OP intended:

 .. | sort | uniq -c | sed -r 's/^ +([0-9]+) /\1\t/' | cut -d $'\t' -f2-