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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:17:54 +0100
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From: "Peter A. Cejchan" <tyapca7@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Q: awk omit cols
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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