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Awk : print certain column ranges

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Name: daelomin
Date: August 10, 2006 at 09:20:13 Pacific
OS: Linux
CPU/Ram: P4 1gig
Comment:

Hi,

How can one print columns say 4 to end with awk?

Thanks



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Response Number 1
Name: nails
Date: August 10, 2006 at 15:08:55 Pacific
Reply:

Assume a default file delimited by whitespace; start at column 4 and print each column to the end. Print a CR at the end of each line:

#!/bin/ksh

awk ' {
for (i=4; i<=NF; i++)
printf("%s ", $i)
printf("\n") # CR at end of line
} ' mydatafile


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Response Number 2
Name: daelomin
Date: August 21, 2006 at 02:59:09 Pacific
Reply:

Very nice! Thanks!


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