Starting in version 4.2, each field width may optionally be
preceded by a colon-separated value specifying the number of characters
to skip before the field starts. Thus, the preceding program could be
rewritten to specify FIELDWIDTHS like so:
BEGIN { FIELDWIDTHS = "8 1:5 4:7 6 1:6 1:6 2:33" }
This strips away some of the white space separating the fields. With such a change, the program produces the following results:
hzang ttyV3 50 eklye ttyV5 0 dportein ttyV6 107 gierd ttyD3 1 dave ttyD4 0 brent ttyp0 286 dave ttyq4 1296000