[ILUG] Simple awk question

[Waider]

According to Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin):
> Quick one for those sed 'n' awk people out there
> 
> Is there an easy way to exclude one field from a seperated file using awk ?
> ... short of doing
> 
> awk -F, '{print $1, $2, $4, $5, ....}'
> 
> which doesn't really scale to a 200 field file ! (Waaay too big, I know !)
> 
> P

Sure; you could use a loop to print the fields, stopping when you get to $NF,
and ignoring the field you don't want. Not sure of the exact syntax to make
that work off the top of my head, but I'd have used Perl for the job anyway.

Cheers,
Waider.
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