How to print the last 9 characters

[irixfan]

How to print the last 9 characters of $1 and then $2 completely?
Input file has multiple lines, two strings on each.

 

[olded]

Irixfan:

Use awk's sub string function:

awk ' {
cnt=length($1)
f1=substr($1, cnt-8, cnt) # get last 9 characters of field 1
printf("%s %s\n",f1, $2)

} ' data.file

Regards,

Ed

 

[irixfan]

It works fine - and I learned useful things.
Thanks a lot!