awk question

[Peter Boosten]

P.U.Kruppa wrote:
> Hi (and sorry for this slightly OT question),
> 
> I would like to extract the second last field of each line of a file
> called user.csv .
> So I try
>     > awk '{print $(NF-1)}' user.csv
>     awk: trying to access out of range field -1
>      input record number 1, file user.csv
>      source line number 1
> 
> Obviously $(NF-1) doesn't do the trick. Any better idea?
> 

Hmmm, works for me it does...

Peter
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