Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:30:45 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich@pukruppa.net> To: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: awk question Message-ID: <20070726222855.A55804@small> In-Reply-To: <46A9035A.8030308@boosten.org> References: <20070726214006.X54947@small> <46A9035A.8030308@boosten.org>
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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.
>
> Peter
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Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany
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