Re: Simple awk question

[Axel Schlicht <meiwakudome@web.de>]

kj wrote:
> But I cannot find it in my awk book (O'Reilly's sed&awk).
>
> I'm trying to make three columns out of a postfix mail log.  Queue ID, 
> From address, and remote server response for certain situations (it's 
> already grepped down to that).
>
>  awk '{print $7" "$6" "$17}'
>
> $17 is the first word of the remote server response, I need to include 
> everything from $17 onwards to the end of the line into the third field.
>
> How do I specify that?
>
> Thanks
> --kj
Hi, IICR you can't go beyond $9 - maybe ${10}will work, not sure here. 
So split the line into an array (using split) and print the respective 
fields.
Split etc. is in the O'Reilly book.

HTH

Axel