problem with awk

[Dave Ulrick]

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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