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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting need help with awk in printing the fields in a file Post 302243692 by sais on Monday 6th of October 2008 09:52:45 AM
Old 10-06-2008
need help with awk in printing the fields in a file
hi all

i get a file from a server and i do not know how many fields that file will contain.
i need to cut from the second column of the file to the last, irrespective of how many fields are there.

is there any way to make the awk command dynamic for fetching from the second to the last field in the file, some thing similar to cut commmand where giving -f2- will give fields from second to the end..
the reason why i cannot use cut is that a few of the fields have tab as a delimiter and a few have space, as awk treats both as same and fetches the field irrespective of the delimiter being tab or space, i want it to be an awk command...

any help.
 

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CUT(1)								   User Commands							    CUT(1)

NAME

       cut - remove sections from each line of files

SYNOPSIS

       cut OPTION... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -b, --bytes=LIST
	      select only these bytes

       -c, --characters=LIST
	      select only these characters

       -d, --delimiter=DELIM
	      use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter

       -f, --fields=LIST
	      select only these fields;  also print any line that contains no delimiter character, unless the -s option is specified

       -n     (ignored)

       --complement
	      complement the set of selected bytes, characters or fields

       -s, --only-delimited
	      do not print lines not containing delimiters

       --output-delimiter=STRING
	      use STRING as the output delimiter the default is to use the input delimiter

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       Use  one,  and only one of -b, -c or -f.  Each LIST is made up of one range, or many ranges separated by commas.  Selected input is written
       in the same order that it is read, and is written exactly once.	Each range is one of:

       N      N'th byte, character or field, counted from 1

       N-     from N'th byte, character or field, to end of line

       N-M    from N'th to M'th (included) byte, character or field

       -M     from first to M'th (included) byte, character or field

       With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

AUTHOR

       Written by David M. Ihnat, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.

REPORTING BUGS

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SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for cut is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and cut programs are properly installed at  your	site,  the
       command

	      info coreutils 'cut invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

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