Category: awk
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Awk: Remove everything after the first word in each line
Another awk question. How to remove everything after the first word in each line? E.g., if we wanted to remove everything but the names in this input (FILENAME.txt): Anna 123 09123 Main Street Bob 109 09800 Smith Street Joe 0981 123123 King Street We can use awk like so: awk ‘{…
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Awk: Remove first line of file
Short and sweet – when piping data through awk, how do we remove the first line of the input? awk ‘{if (NR!=1) {print}}’ e.g. cat FILENAME.txt | awk ‘{if (NR!=1) {print}}’ Done!