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Documentation for cut --fields=field-list giving faulty info on awk

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From: Bo Rydberg <bolry <at> hotmail.com>
To: "bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org" <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Documentation for cut --fields=field-list giving faulty info on awk
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:24:47 +0000

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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.

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