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charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable As seen at https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/cut-invo= cation.html, the section for =91-f field-list=92 =91--fields=3Dfield-list=92 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. --_000_DB5PR0201MB199284700DD8CF672C71CA10A5050DB5PR0201MB1992_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

As seen at https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/cut= -invocation.html, the section for =91-f field-list=92
=91--fields=3Dfield-list=92 hints at some examples of using awk. The s= econd 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.


--_000_DB5PR0201MB199284700DD8CF672C71CA10A5050DB5PR0201MB1992_-- From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Apr 16 22:12:18 2017 Received: (at 26519-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Apr 2017 02:12:18 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51155 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1czw9K-0007FU-3A for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2017 22:12:18 -0400 Received: from midir.magicbluesmoke.com ([82.195.144.46]:46740 helo=mail.magicbluesmoke.com) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1czw9I-0007FL-BS for 26519-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 16 Apr 2017 22:12:16 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [166.170.41.148]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.magicbluesmoke.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 291AD4A88; Mon, 17 Apr 2017 03:12:11 +0100 (IST) Subject: Re: bug#26519: Documentation for cut --fields=field-list giving faulty info on awk To: Bo Rydberg , 26519-done@debbugs.gnu.org References: From: =?UTF-8?Q?P=c3=a1draig_Brady?= Message-ID: <511da59a-33e6-a301-bc36-1dce3b97e598@draigBrady.com> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 19:12:07 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 26519-done X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) 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 From unknown Sat Jun 21 10:20:25 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 11:24:04 +0000 User-Agent: Fakemail v42.6.9 # This is a fake control message. # # The action: # bug archived. thanks # This fakemail brought to you by your local debbugs # administrator