displaying next to last field in file

[noiz]

First i want to thank every one who took time to help me last time. I have a file where i want to print the second to last field of each line but the lines aren't all the same length. Is their a variable in awk i can use that will specify the second to last field?

Example

a b c d
a b c d e f
a b c d e f g
a b c d e f g h

output: c e f g

Thank you

zion
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[flogrr]

Hi noiz-

Sure it's done like this:

awk '{print $(NF-1)}' infile

NF is a built in variable for the number of fields in
each line, so this means print what is held in the
last field (minus 1).

HTH



flogrr
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