On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Tom Browntom@ng23.net wrote:
Hi
I need some logic to work out a value for me - this value is _always_ the 3rd last field in a string seperated by '.' but the string could be 5 or 6 fields long, e.g
foo.bar.VALUE.baz.lala
foor.bar.gigi.VALUE.baz.lala
I need to find VALUE - if this were python or something i could do it but this has to be in shell -
Any clues?
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I am pretty sure there is a way in awk to figure out how many fields you have, then take the total # of fields -3 each time to get the third last one. Just heading out the door and off hand can't remember how it would be done.
Jacques B.