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remove all letters and numbers, replace space with underscore using awk
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awk-strip-words-and-spaces
cat ${logfile} | awk '/^[A-Za-z0-9]/{gsub("[A-Za-z0-9]", "");gsub(" ","_");print}'
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sevaine commented Jun 19, 2017

simpler alternative:

awk '/^[A-Za-z0-9]/{gsub("[A-Za-z0-9]", "");gsub(" ","_");print}' <FILE>

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