Printing everything except the first field with awk

December 3, 2022 by Tarik

$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 " "; print $NF}' filename

This will give you: “two three”