[CentOS] More awk help

>What you've written is mostly incoherent and incomprehensible.

heh, been a long day:)

Actually I am using gawk "/string1/ && /string2/ { print substr( $1, length($1) - 1, length($1) ) }"
which gets me what I need, the last two characters of the first
field of a specific match...

Sorry <vbg>,
jlc