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awk '{ print $9 until the end of the line...}'

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:38:37 GMT

if you do an
ll /
for example and want to awk for the filename,
if that file name is a link there'll be a -> link in the filename
at least the one I want to extract..

how do I specify, from $9 to the end of the line using awk..

Thanks.
Bill

Re: awk '{ print $9 until the end of the line...}'

harry d brown jr — Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:45:29 GMT

Loop until you get to NF.

live free or die
harry

Re: awk '{ print $9 until the end of the line...}'

David Lodge — Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:48:47 GMT

ll | awk '{ for (i=$9; i <= NF; i++) print $i }'

You are getting lazy with your awk :-)

dave

Re: awk '{ print $9 until the end of the line...}'

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:49:23 GMT

Hi Bill:

# ... awk '{print substr($9,index($0,$9))}'

...JRF...

Re: awk '{ print $9 until the end of the line...}'

Robin Wakefield — Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:49:39 GMT

Hi Bill,

ll | awk '{a="";for (i=9;i<=NF;i++){a=a" "$i}print a}'

or less elegantly:

ll | awk '{for (i=1;i<=8;i++){$i=""};print}'

Rgds, Robin.

Re: awk '{ print $9 until the end of the line...}'

harry d brown jr — Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:49:52 GMT

for (i = 9; i < NF; ++i) print $i

Re: awk '{ print $9 until the end of the line...}'

Deepak Extross — Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:56:10 GMT

If you'r not very particular about using awk, how about
#ll | tr -s " " | cut -d' ' -f9-

Re: awk '{ print $9 until the end of the line...}'

Robin Wakefield — Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:00:19 GMT

Hi Bill,

One more thing, to ignore the 1st line, start the awk with:

awk 'NR>1{...

The index version will not work exactly if the filename is, say, rw (which mine often are!), since it will pick up the "rw" in the permissions.

Rgds, Robin.

Re: awk '{ print $9 until the end of the line...}'

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Thu, 22 Nov 2001 15:09:35 GMT

I'll give points tomorrow, I keep getting 404's

Have a great day!

Thanks,
Bill

Re: awk '{ print $9 until the end of the line...}'

Deepak Extross — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 10:25:21 GMT

You may want to skip the first line in the output of ll:
ll | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f9- | tail +2

Re: awk '{ print $9 until the end of the line...}'

Deepak Extross — Sat, 24 Nov 2001 03:24:16 GMT

Bill,
Did you report your 404s to Dan's thread on forum Issues?
I believe he uses the info to generate some mothly reports or such.

Re: awk '{ print $9 until the end of the line...}'

James R. Ferguson — Sat, 24 Nov 2001 20:07:23 GMT

Hi Robin (and Bill):

Great, ironic (?) catch, Robin. I flat missed the match that would occur. What's more, I even bungled the brain to fingers connection, meaning to have written:

...awk '{print substr($0,index($0,$9))}'

In any event, the "shortcut" I suggested clearly has deficiencies. Thanks for catching it!

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: awk '{ print $9 until the end of the line...}'

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:14:29 GMT

yea, I reported the 404's.

Thanks all.
Later,
Bill