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On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Peter Boosten wrote:

>
>
> P.U.Kruppa wrote:
>> Hi (and sorry for this slightly OT question),
>>
>> I would like to extract the second last field of each line of a file
>> called user.csv .
>> So I try
>>    > awk '{print $(NF-1)}' user.csv
>>     awk: trying to access out of range field -1
>>      input record number 1, file user.csv
>>      source line number 1
>>
>> Obviously $(NF-1) doesn't do the trick. Any better idea?
>>
>
> Hmmm, works for me it does...
Sorry: Actually the first line of my user.csv was empty.

Thanks though,

Uli.


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Peter Ulrich Kruppa
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Germany