Re: awk Parsing Question

mooshak@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 schreef:
> Hi All,
> 
> My apologies if this has been covered in the past.
> 
> I am trying to parse lines in a file.   I would like to catpure
> anything after $8 as one variable. For example, in the line below, I
> would like "insert into schema.tab values" to be $8.  By default, awk
> parses the word 'insert' as $8.
> 
> Is there an easy way to do it?
> 
> 
> 0x078000007E1B3840 14     41382      1          1          2
> 2          insert into schema.tab values
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Moosh
how about:
	for (i=9;i<=NF;i++) $8=$8" "$i


then
	print $8
yields:
insert into schema.tab values