awk print

[Mark Frank]

* On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 07:36:05PM -0700 David Bear wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:19:26PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 02:40:10PM -0700, David Bear wrote:
> > > I'm using awk to parse a directory listing. I was hoping there is a
> > > way to tell awk to print from $2 - to the end of the columns
> > > available. 
> > > 
> > > find ./ -name '*stuff' | awk '{FS="/" print $3---'}
> > 
> > Is this what you mean?:
> > 
> > find ./ -name '*stuff'|sed 's|\.[^/]*/[^/]*/||g'
> 
> thanks for the advice. No, this doesn't do what I want.
> 
> If I have a directory path /stuff/stuff/more/stuff/more/and/more
> that is n-levels deep, I want to be able to cut off the first two
> levels and print the from 2 to the Nth level.

So how about cut?

find ./ -name '*stuff'| cut -d/ -f4-

Mark

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