Shell Programming and Scripting

awk '{ for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) {printf("%s ", $i)}
print $NF
} ' inputfile > outputfile

this didnt work either, all it did was removed the blank spaces.
the first column is still there with the rest of the line.

Well change the loop to read for(i=2; i<=NR;i++)

I did not catch the requirment on not printing $1

Another one with awk:

Code:

awk '{$1="";$0=substr($0,2)}1' file > outfile

Regards

awk '{$1="";$0=substr($0,2)}1' file > outfile
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1


awk '{ for(i=2; i<=NF; i++) {printf("%s ", $i)} print $NF } ' inputfile > outputfile

with this the first column does get disappeared but the rest of the columns are repeated.

for example

this is what I had in the input file

1477 wgtnge01.5.1
1477 wgtngp01.1.1
1477 wgtngp02.1.1
1477 witge01.11.0
1477 witge01.11.1
1477 witge01.11.3
1477 witge01.15.
1477 witge01.5.
1477 witge01.6.0

This is what I got in the output file.

wgtnge01.5.1 wgtnge01.5.1
wgtngp01.1.1 wgtngp01.1.1
wgtngp02.1.1 wgtngp02.1.1
witge01.11.0 witge01.11.0
witge01.11.1 witge01.11.1
witge01.11.3 witge01.11.3
witge01.15. witge01.15.
witge01.5. witge01.5.
witge01.6.0 witge01.6.0

wc inputfile
31355 63475 776666 inputfile

awk '{ for(i=2; i<=NR; i++) {printf("%s ", $i)} print $NF } ' inputfile > outputfile
awk: trying to access field 100
record number 100

Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris

Regards

Franklin52

Perfect , Thanks alot, now you are my nawk/awk guru.