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From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Subject: Re: awk question 
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"n j" writes:
> Or awk only i.e. no sed:
> 
> awk '!(/^$/) { print $(NF-1) }' user.csv

That's right. I originally suggested the sed and then was
thinking about it as I walked home yesterday and knew that awk
could test for the blank line condition before committing
suicide.:-)

Martin