Re: [ProgSoc] Field variables from awk splitting...

[daedalus <jpw001@nospam.its.maynick.com.au>]

On Thu, 28 May 1998, Eliseo Christopher d'Annunzio, Esquire wrote:

> What would be the field variable for the last field from a splitting? eg.
> $1 is the first field, $2 is the second... the last field is...?

$NF is set to the number of fields in each line, so

stuff | awk '{print $NF}' will print the last field on each line,

stuff | awk '{print $(NF-1)}' will print the second to last field, etc.

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