Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:36:44 -0500 From: Don Hinton <don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich@pukruppa.net>, Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> Subject: Re: awk question Message-ID: <200707261536.44548.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> In-Reply-To: <46A9035A.8030308@boosten.org> References: <20070726214006.X54947@small> <46A9035A.8030308@boosten.org>
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--nextPart1272859.8bWHbmNLyD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 26 July 2007 15:26:02 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... Me too, except of course if the first line of user.cvs is blank... > > Peter =2D-=20 Don Hinton <don.hinton at vanderbilt.edu> or <hintonda at gmail.com> Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS), Vanderbilt University tel: 615.480.5667 or 615.870.9728 --nextPart1272859.8bWHbmNLyD--
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