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From: mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to merge two files in awk??
Message-ID: <6383@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Jan 91 11:26:20 GMT
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Organization: University of Southampton, UK
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In <3404@d75.UUCP> @xlab1.uucp writes:

> Finally, how do u specify the "rest of the line" in awk??

I am a relative beginner with awk, but I ran into this problem too. My
solution was to set the fields I wasn't interested in to "" and then
use $0.

eg
	$1 = "" ;
	print "rest of line is " $0

Is this a good way?

			Mark.
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