From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Jul 26 21:12:02 2007
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52D2A16A417
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:12:02 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu)
Received: from mailgate04.smtp.vanderbilt.edu (mailgate04.smtp.Vanderbilt.Edu
	[129.59.1.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15AC613C458
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:12:01 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu)
Received: from smtp10.smtp.vanderbilt.edu (smtp10.smtp.Vanderbilt.Edu
	[129.59.1.11])
	by mailgate04.smtp.vanderbilt.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id
	l6QKauXf023749
	(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT);
	Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:36:56 -0500
Received: from smtp10.smtp.vanderbilt.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by smtp10.smtp.vanderbilt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11/VU-3.7.9C+d3.7.9) with
	ESMTP id l6QKauab001243; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:36:56 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from [192.168.0.2] (c-68-52-255-63.hsd1.tn.comcast.net
	[68.52.255.63])
	by smtp10.smtp.vanderbilt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11/VU-3.7.9.3B+d3.7.9) with
	ESMTP id l6QKapoc001223
	(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO);
	Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:36:52 -0500 (CDT)
From: Don Hinton <don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu>
Organization: ISIS
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:36:44 -0500
User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7
References: <20070726214006.X54947@small> <46A9035A.8030308@boosten.org>
In-Reply-To: <46A9035A.8030308@boosten.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1272859.8bWHbmNLyD";
	protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <200707261536.44548.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu>
X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=4.65.5502:2.3.11, 1.2.37,
	4.0.164 definitions=2007-07-26_07:2007-07-26, 2007-07-26,
	2007-07-26 signatures=0
X-PPS: No, score=0
X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5
Cc: "P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich@pukruppa.net>, Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
Subject: Re: awk question
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:12:02 -0000

--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--