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 -- Dave Ulrick Email: d-ulrick@xxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines