>>> which part tells me from "i" to the end of the line?
In the first method JRF shows that would be : i=9;i<=NF;i++
The NF is the Number-of-Field = "the end"
In the second method JRF proposes to just look for the byte offset where field 9 starts, and use that as the start of a string to extract. I like that, notably to preserve spacing.
But be careful that field 9 is indeed unique.
I typically 'help' that by adding separators (spaces) around the target string.
$ X="a b c d e if g h i j k l m"
$ echo $X| awk '{print substr($0,index($0,$9))}'
if g h i j k l m
$ echo $X| awk '{print substr($0,index($0," " $9 " ") + 1)}'
i j k l m
Obligatory PERL variant....
$ echo $X| perl -lane 'print join " ",@F[8..@F]'
i j k l m
Print the join of a slice of the array @F, set up by -a, using a space to join.
The slice starts at element 8 ( Perl arrays are 0 based).
It ends at the scalar value for @F which is the number of elements in @F (but in a pinch 999 will work fine as well)
hth,
Hein
