On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:19:26PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:40:10PM -0700, David Bear wrote: > > I'm using awk to parse a directory listing. I was hoping there is a > > way to tell awk to print from $2 - to the end of the columns > > available. > > > > find ./ -name '*stuff' | awk '{FS="/" print $3---'} > > Is this what you mean?: > > find ./ -name '*stuff'|sed 's|\.[^/]*/[^/]*/||g'
thanks for the advice. No, this doesn't do what I want. If I have a directory path /stuff/stuff/more/stuff/more/and/more that is n-levels deep, I want to be able to cut off the first two levels and print the from 2 to the Nth level. > > Roland > -- > R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign > r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail > http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail > public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax: 480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"