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I'm searching how to put for loop inside "print" - I've managed how to get all information what I need from log file but if I use "for loop" after print then each new information is given in new line. I know that is calling print each time so... how to print all in new line? For example this:

cat /var/log/apache2/domlogs/xxxx/xxxx.com* | awk -F " " '{print $1 " - " $4 " " $5 " "} {for(i=12; i<=NF; i++) print $i}'

Give me that output:

66.249.65.172 - [29/May/2019:02:48:20 +0200]
"Mozilla/5.0
(compatible;
Googlebot/2.1;
+http://www.google.com/bot.html)"

But when I want to pass at end what I found between 12 col and NF:

cat /var/log/apache2/domlogs/xxxx/xxxx.com* | awk -F " " '{print $1 " - " $4 " " $5 " " for(i=12; i<=NF; i++) " " $i}'

Then I get only:

66.249.65.172 - [29/May/2019:02:48:20 +0200]

I'm heading to output like:

66.249.65.172 - [29/May/2019:02:48:20 +0200] "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
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You need to use printf() over print because the latter by default embeds a newline after the string provided. Modify your code to use printf with format specifiers for each of the strings.

awk '{ printf "%s - %s  %s ", $1, $4, $5 } 
     { for(i=12; i<=NF; i++) printf "%s ", $i; printf "\n" }'
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  • Thank you so much - that's did the trick - only I've added extra space here "%s - %s %s " because output had lack of it Commented May 29, 2019 at 5:23

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