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

Rajan schreef:
> 
> 
> "Luuk" <Luuk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:3ve5c5-p27.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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

read again, it says:
printf $x " ";

so, the output is:
/tmp # awk -v nr=4 '{ for (x=nr; x<=NF; x++) {
 >           printf $x " "; }; print " " }'  test.txt

d
d e f
d v e


-- 
Luuk