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# 1  
Old 01-05-2013
awk one liner to print to end of line

Given:

Code:
1,2,whatever,a,940,sot

how can i print from one particular field to the end of line?

Code:
awk -F"," '{print $2 - endofline}'

the delimiter just happens to be a comma "," in this case. in other cases, it could be hypens:

Code:
1---2---whatever---a---940---sot

# 2  
Old 01-06-2013
Code:
# example with three -> end
awk '{ for(i=3; i<=NF; i++) {printf( (i==NF)?"%s\n" : "%s ", $i) } somefile

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Old 01-06-2013
jim mcnamara's proposal needs minor corrections:
Code:
$ awk '{ for(i=3; i<=NF; i++) {printf( (i==NF)?"%s\n" : "%s---", $i) }}' FS="---" file
whatever---a---940---sot

You may also want to give this a try:
Code:
$ awk '{sub($1FS$2FS,"")}1' FS="---" OFS="---" file
whatever---a---940---sot

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# 4  
Old 01-06-2013
Code:
echo "one,two,three,four,five" | awk -F, '{ for (x=nr; x<NF; x++) {printf $x ","} print $NF }' nr=3
three,four,five

Code:
echo "one---two---three---four---five" | awk -F-+ '{ for (x=nr; x<NF; x++) {printf $x "---"} print $NF }' nr=3
three---four---five


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# 5  
Old 01-06-2013
Code:
awk -F, '{s=$f; for(i=f+1; i<=NF; i++) s=s FS $i; print s}' f=2

Code:
sed 's/[^,]*,*/§/2; s/.*§//'

if there is just a single character as field separator:
Code:
cut -d, -f2-

--
@ jotne, if printf is used without explicitly specifying the format field than this is left to the input data.. Try replacing one of the fields with "%s" for example

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-06-2013 at 06:17 AM..
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