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Old 04-24-2007
extracting last paragraph from a text

Hi All,

I want to extract last paragraph from a text for example

aaaaa
sadafsa
sdfdsaf

asfdsad
asfdsfad
asfdfsafd
adfssas

asdfsafdsa
asfdasdfa
sadfasdsaf


i need the last paragraph how to do it using linux commands

Best Regards<
Rakesh UV
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Old 04-24-2007
Code:
awk -v RS="" ' { str=$0 } END { print str } ' file

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