Similarly to how --message_skip_bytes is used for each message found in a LengthDelimitedFileMessageSource to ignore things like UDP header information, --message_skip_chars would trim the first n characters from messages arriving via LineDelimitedFileMessageSource.
Similarly to how
--message_skip_bytesis used for each message found in aLengthDelimitedFileMessageSourceto ignore things like UDP header information,--message_skip_charswould trim the first n characters from messages arriving viaLineDelimitedFileMessageSource.