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Old 05-13-2009
Get Nth record from last line
I have a growing file . I knew only last few lines which is constant for evey job run. I'd need to pull the Nth record from the last line. In this case i should not use search pattern.
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Old 05-13-2009
One way - assume you want line #101 from the end
Code:
tail -101 filename | head -1

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Old 05-13-2009
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Originally Posted by ford2020
I have a growing file . I knew only last few lines which is constant for evey job run. I'd need to pull the Nth record from the last line. In this case i should not use search pattern.
If you want the last line, use:

Code:
tail -n 1

How you pull the record from a specific position depends on how the record is delimited and what tools you have available (sed, awk, Perl, etc.).
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