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
