Re: Print fields starting with N to the end of line.

"Luuk" <Luuk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Peter schreef:
>> Hello, seems that I'm missing something obvious. There is file with
>> variable number of field, is there any simple way in awk to print
>> fields starting with field N up to the end of line. e.g.
>>
>> $ cat test.txt
>> a b c
>> a b c d
>> a b c d e f
>> a b c d v e
>>
>> How to print
>> $ awk <???> test.txt
>>
>> d
>> d e f
>> d v e
>>
>> Of course this is simplification of real data I have so I definitely
>> need awk to parse it ;) Thank you very much in advance.
>
> $ awk -v nr=4 '{ for (x=nr; x<=NF; x++) {
>           printf $x " "; }; print " " }'  test.txt
>
>
> -- 
> Luuk

One thing that we should note here is we will lose spacing between the 
fields this way.

Rajan