[ale] Shell Scripting question

[Geoffrey]

nick travis wrote:
> thanks for the help, what can I use to get the last three words off of a
> line, instead of just the last word?

As long as it's delimited by white space:

awk '{print $(NF-2), $(NF-1), $NF}'  inputfile

You can format it real pretty as well, 'man awk' and search fro printf.


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