printing last two characters of each line

Bashar · #1 (**permalink**) 01-07-2009

Hello,
any trick to print line number and last two characters of each line ?

Patagonicus · #2 (**permalink**) 01-07-2009

Hi,

this command prints the line number, a colon, a space and the last two characters for each line:

Code:

awk '{ print NR ": " substr($0, length($0)-1) }' test.txt

vgersh99 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-07-2009

Code:

echo 'aslkjd' | sed -e 's/.*\(..\)/\1/;=' | sed '/./N;s/\n/ /'

mitthan · #4 (**permalink**) 01-07-2009

awk ' NF > 0 ' test.txt >tmp.txt : remove the blank lines
awk '{ print NR ": " substr($0, length($0)-1) }' tmp.txt

Bashar · #5 (**permalink**) 01-07-2009

thanks

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