I have recently just started using awk in shell scripting. I find it is
easier to use and faster in both development and performance than running a
perl script. I find that awk is very useful. One of the uses I like is
parsing a configuration file for a specific line and then parsing the line
for a specific entry i.e.
grep IPADDRESS config.txt | awk -F":" '{print $2}'
if you want all of the columns for that line simply forget the awk, if you
want to use awk, use '{print $0}'.
Mbright
From: Tony Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: BYU Unix Users Group <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [uug] Quick awk question
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 14:01:28 -0400
Hi everyone,
I have a quick awk question. What is the awk command to print out all
columns of a file excluding the first column? I needed a quick answer so I
already got what I needed by resorting to the cut command. But out of
curiosity, is this relatively simple in awk? And for discussions sake, do
any of you feel that the merit of learning awk is any less now that we have
such powerful and multi-purpose scripting languages as Python and Perl?
Best,
Tony
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