Question

I’d like to copy commands from my recent command history into a file, but the history looks like this:

568  find . -name "*.txt" -mtime -1 -print -exec awk '$9 != "" && NR <= 10' {} \;
569  find . -name "*.txt" -mtime -1 -print -exec awk '$9 != "" && n < 10 {print; n++}' {} \;
570  history 10

I want to strip off the numbers on the left. Is there a short way to do this in awk without explicitly using $2 $3 $4 etc. to output everything but the first field?

Answer 1

If you don’t mind using something other than awk:

history 10 | cut -c 8-