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i wanted to printout the last entry of the file without passing in any arguments but how can i able to do it? i know how to print out where argument is supplied and doing a grep to match it.
example inside the file i have:
apple:2:1:3
orange:1:2:3
grape:2:3:4
i wanted only to print out(last entry of my file):
grape:2:3:4
example inside the file i have:
apple:2:1:3
orange:1:2:3
grape:2:3:4
i wanted only to print out(last entry of my file):
grape:2:3:4
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sed -n '$p' filename
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thanks masijade! thanks for ur help!!!
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tail -1 file
tail -1 file
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^ Nice and simple, just the way I like it... though I'm more interested in the sed example.
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Originally Posted by Salem 
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tail -1 file
True. I like to give somewhat obscure answers to things that I belive are probably/possibly homework questions. That way, if they are not a homework question, the OP has something (s)he can use, and if they are, the teacher knows, as soon as (s)he sees it, that the student probably did not come up with it themselves. ;-)
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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
--Brian Kernighan
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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
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sed will be slower than tail for huge files. Just a tip
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