If you quickly learn the basics of awk, you can indeed do amazing things on the command line. But the real reason to learn awk is to have an excuse to read the superb book The AWK Programming Language by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger. The AWK Programming Language at archive.org You would think, from the … Read more
awk ‘{for(i=1;i<4;i++) $i=””;print}’ file
$1=”” leaves a space as Ben Jackson mentioned, so use a for loop: awk ‘{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) print $i}’ filename So if your string was “one two three”, the output will be: two three If you want the result in one row, you could do as follows: awk ‘{for (i=2; i<NF; i++) printf $i … Read more
This maybe what you’re looking for: awk ‘BEGIN {FS=” “;} {printf “‘\”%s’\” “, $1}’ That is, with ‘\” you close the opening ‘, then print a literal ‘ by escaping it and finally open the ‘ again.
awk ‘{print $(NF-1)}’ Should work
Have you tried: echo “12|23|11″ | awk ‘{split($0,a,”|”); print a[3],a[2],a[1]}’
you can try with awk: awk ‘/blah/{getline; print}’ logfile
The delimiter can be a regular expression. awk -F'[/=]’ ‘{print $3 “\t” $5 “\t” $8}’ file Produces: tc0001 tomcat7.1 demo.example.com tc0001 tomcat7.2 quest.example.com tc0001 tomcat7.5 www.example.com