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Old 01-24-2010
Use sed to move last line to top
I have parsed a curl download with sed commands. I would also like to move the last line in the output file to the top. Can I use sed for this?
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Old 01-24-2010
How about:
Code:
sed '1h;1d;$!H;$!d;G' infile

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Old 01-24-2010
That works perfectly, thanks!
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Old 01-24-2010
By awk:

Code:
awk '{a[NR]=$0} END {print a[NR]; for (i=1;i<NR;i++) print a[i]}' urfile

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