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Manipulating Last Line In Input File
That works great PH....I think I had an extra bracket somewhere that was giving me all kinds of parse errors when I tried it the first time....I really appreciate it. How long have you been programming with AWK? Mark -
Manipulating Last Line In Input File
Hey PH...you are correct...that does work...I had to change the brackets around a bit to get it to work in my awk script like this: However, it's putting a blank line at the top of filename1. That sounds easy to correct...thank you so much for your tip. I knew there had to be a way to do... -
Manipulating Last Line In Input File
Sorry PH...it was late last night and I should've gone into more detail on what I was trying to accomplish! I really appreciate you helping me out. Here's my scenario: I will have 1 input file that will have a variable number of records....more than likely thousands of records... -
Manipulating Last Line In Input File
Unfortunately that doesn't work for me. That omits the first record from being printed to file1, but I need the last record to be omitted. Mark -
Manipulating Last Line In Input File
I am new to AWK and I have what seems to be an easy task, but am having trouble manipulating the last line in the file. I figured out how to print the last line of the file to a new file by END{print > filename} because it stores that last line in a buffer, but let's say I want to print...
