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Print second last column/field in awk

I want to print the second last column or field in awk. The number of fields is variable. I know …

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How to remove a character at the end of each line in unix

I would like to remove comma , at the end of each line in my file. How can I do it …

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Turning multiple lines into one comma separated line

I have the following data in multiple lines: foo bar qux zuu sdf sdfasdf What I want to do is …

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awk - concatenate two string variable and assign to a third

In awk, I have 2 fields: $1 and $2. They are both strings that I want to concatenate and assign to a variable.

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How to remove leading whitespace from each line in a file

I have a file that looks something like this: for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) for (…

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What are the differences among grep, awk & sed?

Possible Duplicate: What are the differences between Perl, Python, AWK and sed? What is the difference between sed and awk? …

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Printing everything except the first field with awk

I have a file that looks like this: AE United Arab Emirates AG Antigua & Barbuda AN Netherlands Antilles AS …

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Print line numbers starting at zero using awk

Can anyone tell me how to print line numbers including zero using awk? Here is my input file stackfile2.txt …

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how to remove the first two columns in a file using shell (awk, sed, whatever)

I have a file with many lines in each line there are many columns(fields) separated by blank " " the numbers …

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How to escape a single quote inside awk

I want do the following awk 'BEGIN {FS=" ";} {printf "'%s' ", $1}' But escaping single quote this way does not …

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