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From: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:56:07
Message-Id: 20060324170154.5b2d092c.hilse@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting by "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
1 Hi,
2
3 On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:49:22 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
4 <bss03@××××××××××.net> wrote:
5
6 > On Friday 24 March 2006 07:34, Sascha Lucas
7 > <sascha.lucas@×××××××××××××××××.de> wrote about '[gentoo-user] OT:
8 > awk scripting':
9 > > I want the awk analogon for "cut -f2-", which prints fields #2 to
10 > > #n. Is this possible?
11 >
12 > I think:
13 > awk '{shift; shift; print $0}'
14
15 Sad, but true: There's no "shift" in awk.
16
17 -hwh
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