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05-13-2009, 09:24 AM
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Registered: Aug 2006
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in order to be resilient to changes in input, using $NF and $(NF-1) is still a better choice.
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05-13-2009, 09:30 AM
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Registered: May 2005
Location: Atlanta Georgia USA
Distribution: Redhat (RHEL), CentOS, Fedora, CoreOS, Debian, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Solaris, SCO
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Which is what I was saying.
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05-13-2009, 09:32 AM
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Registered: Oct 2005
Location: $RANDOM
Distribution: slackware64
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You can do either way, to me the rev answer came to mind first, followed by the awk one. Sure the awk one is better.
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