Re: simple awk question

[Chuck Campbell <campbell@accelinc.com>]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:17:58AM +0300, urgrue wrote:
> how can i print all BUT the last field. ie something like:
> echo one.two.three.four | awk -F "." '{print <all from $1 to $(NF-1)>}'
> =one.two.three

Sorry, I didn't test my first one.  Your syntax for calling awk was wrong,
and I blindly copied it when I put in my recipe.   

This:
echo one.two.three.four | awk -F "." \
 '{for (i=1; i<NF-1 ;i++) {printf("%s.",$i)};printf("%s\n",$(NF-1))}'

Should actually read:
echo one.two.three.four | awk -F. \
 '{for (i=1; i<NF-1 ;i++) {printf("%s.",$i)};printf("%s\n",$(NF-1))}'


Please note the -F flag difference in the awk command line.

-chuck


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