[ILUG] Simple awk question

[Padraig Brady]

Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) wrote:
> 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


cut is probably better for something simple like this:

cut -d' ' -f1,2,4-

Padraig.