I need to sort out some data, but I cant figure out how to exclude text from a field, but also print the rest of that line without the specified text. I have only been able to figure out how to delete the entire line, which is what I don't want. Here is a command that shows the output with the data i need, but when i try to use the other command to exclude data it ends up deleting the entire field:

Here is an example of the source text that im trying to filter. I cant paste the entire log or output here because its really long, but i can provide pieces of it here: If it will help someone, here is a full log, note that not all the data is like the rest, a few lines are different, but i am willing to manually filter out a few lines that don't match the rest: <https://pastebin.com/ifVK2BHg>

```
[16:07:29] [Server thread/INFO]: OkqySeany lost connection: Disconnected
[16:24:42] [Server thread/INFO]: DraconicPiggy lost connection: Disconnected
[19:35:49] [User Authenticator #8/INFO]: UUID of player Anviloh_YT is 009fd2cd-c5da-4639-b3b9-ef90b7438c99
[19:39:43] [User Authenticator #9/INFO]: UUID of player DraconicPiggy is b075ce61-dcef-4d40-a674-100a07b361c4
[20:16:00] [Server thread/INFO]: Anviloh_YT lost connection: Disconnected
[20:19:57] [Server thread/INFO]: DraconicPiggy lost connection: Disconnected

```

The command that prints out field $4, but also has #INFO on it:

```
    awk '{print $1 "\t" $4 "\t" $8 }' *.filtered.log

```

```
[16:07:29] OkqySeany  
[16:24:42] DraconicPiggy  
[19:35:49] #8/INFO]: Anviloh_YT  
[19:39:43] #9/INFO]: DraconicPiggy  
[20:16:00] Anviloh_YT  
[20:19:57] DraconicPiggy  

```

Field 4 has some data that i need, but the #INFO is something I want gone so I tried this:

```
    awk '$4 !~ /#/ {print $1 "\t" $4 "\t" $8 }' *.filtered.log

```

But that command just deletes the field i need:

```
[16:07:29]      OkqySeany  
[16:24:42]      DraconicPiggy  
[20:16:00]      Anviloh_YT  
[20:19:57]      DraconicPiggy  

```

As you can see the 2 in the middle are gone, how do i delete #INFO without deleting the whole line? I am trying to get the output to look like this:

```
[16:07:29] OkqySeany  
[16:24:42] DraconicPiggy  
[19:35:49] Anviloh_YT  
[19:39:43] DraconicPiggy  
[20:16:00] Anviloh_YT  
[20:19:57] DraconicPiggy  

```