[9fans] Q: awk omit cols

[9fans] Q: awk omit cols

[Peter A. Cejchan]

Hi,

is there any way to print out, e.g. , $2 $3 $4.... $LAST,
i.e., just omitting $1 ?
I was advised to use 'cut' , but, according to plan9 wiki I should use
'awk' for 'cut'...

Thanks,
++pac.


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Re: [9fans] Q: awk omit cols

[Russ Cox]

awk '{print substr($0, 1+length($1)+1)}'

Re: [9fans] Q: awk omit cols

[Peter A. Cejchan]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> awk '{print substr($0, 1+length($1)+1)}'
>

Big thank you, Russ, however, wouldn't it be smarter if we had some
kind of 'not' operator here...? Sometimes, especially when you write
the script by hand it is easier to delete few fields than to
explicitly write out all those remaining... IMHO...

++pac

Re: [9fans] Q: awk omit cols

[hugo rivera]

I think
awk '{$1="";print}'
should do what you want, provided that you don't care about leading spaces.

2009/11/19 Peter A. Cejchan <tyapca7@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>> awk '{print substr($0, 1+length($1)+1)}'
>>
>
> Big thank you, Russ, however, wouldn't it be smarter if we had some
> kind of 'not' operator here...? Sometimes, especially when you write
> the script by hand it is easier to delete few fields than to
> explicitly write out all those remaining... IMHO...
>
> ++pac
>
>



--
Hugo

Re: [9fans] Q: awk omit cols

[Peter A. Cejchan]

> awk '{$1="";print}'
> should do what you want, provided that you don't care about leading spaces.


really, it works, I have still much to learn, thank you,
Peter, aka ++pac