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  1. Bug #1048135
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Malaise (malaise) wrote :

echo "30 29 27 26 23" | mawk '{gsub ("^[^ ]+ ", ""); print $0}'
leads to print "23" instead of "29 27 26 23"
According to the man the leading "^" matches the front of a string, but it seems to be ignored.

This works OK with gawk.