Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:26:02 +0200 From: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> To: "P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich@pukruppa.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: awk question Message-ID: <46A9035A.8030308@boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <20070726214006.X54947@small> References: <20070726214006.X54947@small>
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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...
Peter
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