awk: print colums $1 through to $5

[gborrageiro]

hi,

Is there a simple way to cat a file a print colums 1 through to 5?
This is how I tediously accomplish this at the moment:
cat file | awk '{print $1$2$3$4$5}'

would be great to use a range of some sort, eg:
cat file | awk '{print $1:$5}'

many thanks

 

[feherke]

Hi

Nope. The best you can do is to use a [tt]for[/tt] loop from 1 to 5 and [tt]print[/tt] the fields one by one.

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The [tt]cut[/tt] command can handle field ranges.
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Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[PHV]

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