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From: "Peter A. Cejchan" <tyapca7@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Q: awk omit cols
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:17:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e56a31560911190217h4d8606f2xd55c81a8ae2fbeac@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd6fe68a0911190052t62b2b0fk3f2cddaae7916ba8@mail.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



  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-19 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-19  8:34 Peter A. Cejchan
2009-11-19  8:52 ` Russ Cox
2009-11-19 10:17   ` Peter A. Cejchan [this message]
2009-11-19 10:32     ` hugo rivera
2009-11-19 10:39       ` Peter A. Cejchan

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