Printing everything except the first field with awk

Question

I have a file that looks like this:

AE  United Arab Emirates
AG  Antigua & Barbuda
AN  Netherlands Antilles
AS  American Samoa
BA  Bosnia and Herzegovina         


        

Answer 1

$1="" leaves a space as Ben Jackson mentioned, so use a for loop:

awk '{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) print $i}' filename

So if your string was "one two three", the output will be:

two
three

If you want the result in one row, you could do as follows:

awk '{for (i=2; i

This will give you: "two three"