How to merge two files in awk??

[Mark Dobie]

In <3404 at d75.UUCP> @xlab1.uucp writes:

> Finally, how do u specify the "rest of the line" in awk??

I am a relative beginner with awk, but I ran into this problem too. My
solution was to set the fields I wasn't interested in to "" and then
use $0.

eg
	$1 = "" ;
	print "rest of line is " $0

Is this a good way?

			Mark.
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