Subject: Re: bug#26519: Documentation for cut --fields=field-list giving faulty info on awk

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 19:12:07 -0700

On 14/04/17 09:24, Bo Rydberg wrote:
> As seen at https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/cut-invocation.html, the section for ‘-f field-list’
> ‘--fields=field-list’ hints at some examples of using awk. The second example is wrong. it states:
> awk '{print $NF-1}' # print the penultimate field
> when it should be
> awk '{print $(NF-1)}' # print the penultimate field
> i.e., parenthesis missing.

Indeed. I guess that was tested with echo 1 2 3 :)
Committed in your name at:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.27-22-g8d34b45

thanks,
Pádraig