Shell Programming and Scripting

1,2,whatever,a,940,sot

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

1---2---whatever---a---940---sot

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

$ awk '{ for(i=3; i<=NF; i++) {printf( (i==NF)?"%s\n" : "%s---", $i) }}' FS="---" file
whatever---a---940---sot

$ awk '{sub($1FS$2FS,"")}1' FS="---" OFS="---" file
whatever---a---940---sot

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

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

awk -F, '{s=$f; for(i=f+1; i<=NF; i++) s=s FS $i; print s}' f=2

sed 's/[^,]*,*/§/2; s/.*§//'

cut -d, -f2-