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Old 06-24-2004
Question Can't figure out how to display specific data from a line using awk.
Hello,
I cannot figure this one out. I would like to do the following. I have a line that has 7 words. It is possible that the line can have 20 words too. I always want to show the 9th word and beyond. The 9th word will always change so I do not have something to search for, so I think the best option is to use awk. I know the '^' character is for beginning of line, and '$' is for end of line. So far I have figured out his much...
cat {file} |awk '{print $9}'
I don't know how to code 9th word and 'to the end of line'.

Help is greatly appreciated,
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Old 06-24-2004
I would probably just use cut, e.g..
Code:
cut -d" " -f9- file1

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