print a certain line counted from the end of an output streamThis is a discussion on print a certain line counted from the end of an output stream within the awk forums in Programming Languages category; Oftentimes I need to print, say, the 4th line from the end of an output stream. I've been using constructs of the sort cat file | tail -4 | head -1 Is there a more elegant tool / approach (sed/awk/head/tail whatever!)? -- Rahul... | ||||||||
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 print a certain line counted from the end of an output stream Oftentimes I need to print, say, the 4th line from the end of an output stream. I've been using constructs of the sort cat file | tail -4 | head -1 Is there a more elegant tool / approach (sed/awk/head/tail whatever!)? -- Rahul  |
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