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

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

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

[harry d brown jr]

Loop until you get to NF.

live free or die
harry

[David Lodge]

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

You are getting lazy with your awk :-)

dave

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Bill:

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

...JRF...

[Robin Wakefield · Accepted solution]

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.

[harry d brown jr]

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

[Deepak Extross]

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

[Robin Wakefield]

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.

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

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

Have a great day!

Thanks,
Bill

[Deepak Extross]

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

[Deepak Extross]

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.

[James R. Ferguson]

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...

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

yea, I reported the 404's.

Thanks all.
Later,
Bill