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Old 06-05-2008
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You can use the END statement to access the last record of the file:


Code:
awk  'END{ print "this is the last line :  ", $0, "  | and NR  is -> " NR, "do something else here..." }' myfile.txt

And don't use $ sign inside awk:


Code:

lastRec=`awk 'END{print NR}' myfile.txt`

awk -v aLastRec="$lastRec" '{if (NR == aLastRec) ... }' myfile.txt