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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting using the $1 $2 etc for words in awk Post 302439246 by linuxkid on Thursday 22nd of July 2010 06:50:32 AM
Old 07-22-2010
Error using the $1 $2 etc for words in awk
So if I have an awk statement that is basically just looking at the NF at if its more than 2, then print out the first 2 words, and all the rest on another line. I know that $1 and $2 are the first two fields, but how would I symbolise telling it to print all the other fields regardless of how many there are on a newline?

Just some quick pseudocode as im away from my PC

Code:
if (NF>2){
print $1 FS $2 "\n" 
}

now after the \n I want to know how i can tell it to print out all the other fields, bearing in mind that the number of fields it checks on each line can vary.
Many thanks
 

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