How do I find last record

[Tison]

Does anyone have a little script for me that will find the last record in a file containing duplicates ?
I have a log file with many similar lines of data (only the date time changes) and I want to find the last occurance of a specific string
eg grep "string_value" log_file | (get last entry)

 

[teddy74]

Hi Tison !

How about using "tail -1" , this would give u the last line from the file ; maybe u can use "sort" with options to sort on a particular field and then pipe it to tail -1 , this would give u the last line. I am sure this is possible in a more efficient way in awk, but i don't remember the syntax,
hope it helps
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