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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting using awk to print some columns of a file Post 302481006 by cabrao on Thursday 16th of December 2010 11:01:56 AM
Old 12-16-2010
For the provided input, try this:
Code:
awk '{print $1,$NF}' file

 

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