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Old 03-19-2009
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Originally Posted by chengamsiva View Post
Replace
your line :user_prog_name=$(echo ${line} | awk '{print $3}')

by :user_prog_name=$(echo ${line} | awk '{print $3 $4 $5 $6}')
(or)
user_prog_name=$(echo ${line} | awk '{print $3 " " $4 " " $5 " " $6}') to provide single space " " between $3,$4,$5 and $6 when the values are store in variable.
Your solution works if the number of words in the column USER_PROG_NAME is know. But it is NOT.

It can contain 1, 2 or even 5 words with spaces seperating them.

So basically what I want is: from $3 to end of line.

How exactly can I achieve it?

TIA,

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Praveen