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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Print first, second, every nth, and last record Post 302552407 by alister on Friday 2nd of September 2011 10:39:40 PM
Old 09-02-2011
The following builds on agama's suggestion so that it handles the last line:
Code:
awk '{p=0; r=$0} NR<3 || !(NR%n) {print r; p=1} END {if (!p) print r}' n=9

p: flag to track whether a record has been printed.
r: most recent record

Regards,
Alister
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