On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 17:08 +0100, Adel ESSAFI wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a "little" proble with awk
> here I have a file which contain data like this
>
>
> 101663.dat
> 1 122837.920343696
> 1 121875.899726134
> 1 8011.13164749145
> 1 24955.1102952732
>
>
> when I execute
>
> awk 'BEGIN { }
> echo $2
> END { print "Fin" }
> ' testclean
>
>
> I got this outpout
>
> 1 122837.920343696
> 1 121875.899726134
> 1 8011.13164749145
> 1 24955.1102952732
>
> while I am expecting to get
>
> 122837.920343696
> 121875.899726134
> 8011.13164749145
> 24955.1102952732
>
> without 1 at the beginning of the line. Can you help please.
>
gawk '{print $2}' <filename>
will do what you want.
If he's using spaces rather than tabs to delimit the fields, an additional
(g)awk option will be needed:
gawk -F "\t" '{print $2}' <filename>
Dave
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