[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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[Russ Cox]

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

[Peter A. Cejchan]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Russ Cox <r...@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 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 <tya...@gmail.com>:

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Hugo

[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