AWK?

azzeretti

Not sure if this is the correct place for this but here it goes:

I need a, what you would think is easy, awk command to pipe a result to then print from a certain feild to the end, including that feild. So a psudeo sample might be:

ls -l *.log | awk '{print $8,EOF}'


I can easliy do this with cut but I need it to be awk!

BTW, I can easily make $1="",$2="" etc up to the start column but that is a little tedious.

Knasher

If I understand you correctly then you are trying to print from a certain column on in a row across a number of files.

In which case try:

awk '{ for(i = <whatever column number you want, starting from 1>; i <= NF; i++){ printf "%s\t", $i; } printf "\n"; }' *.log

Unless you are trying to only print the results of an ls, in which case piping like you are doing should be fine into the command I've specified. Sorry if this isn't the most efficient method, I'm still pretty new to awk myself.

azzeretti

Thanks.
I had been playing around with something similar except it seems to output on new lines instead of together, nightmare.