Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


Shell Programming and Scripting

print only last two words of a line

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting print only last two words of a line
# 1  
Old 08-21-2008
print only last two words of a line
can u help me out to print last two words of each sentence of a file.

for example.
contents of input file:

i love songs
my favourite songs
sent
songs all kind
good buddy


Ouput file should contain:

love songs
favourite songs
sent
all kind
good buddy
# 2  
Old 08-21-2008
This sounds like a homework question. Please read the site FAQ.

Code:
awk '{ if (NF > 1) print $(NF-1),$NF ; else print $NF; }'

Last edited by otheus; 08-21-2008 at 07:59 AM.. Reason: small bug fix
# 3  
Old 08-21-2008
Hi.. Check the code using awk

cat <File name>> | awk '{ as=split($0,TagArr," "); st = sprintf("%s%s", TagArr[as-1],TagArr[as]); print st; }'
# 4  
Old 08-21-2008
Looks like your posts are homework questions.
# 5  
Old 08-22-2008
thanks for u reply.
Since i am new to shell script can u explain in detials
# 6  
Old 08-22-2008
thanks for ur reply
can u explain in detail
AS i have tried it out but getting lot of bugs
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Replace particular words in file based on if finds another words in that line

Hi All, I need one help to replace particular words in file based on if finds another words in that file . i.e. my self is peter@king. i am staying at north sydney. we all are peter@king. How to replace peter to sham if it finds @king in any line of that file. Please help me... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Rajib Podder
8 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Search words in a line and print next 15 lines.

I have a text file ( basically a log file) and i have 2 words (alpha, beta), Now i want to search these two words in one line and then print next 15 lines in a temp file. there would be many lines with alpha and beta But I need only last occurrence with "alpha" and "beta" and next 15 lines. ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kashif.live
4 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

print number of words in each line

Hi, Please suggest a way to print number of words in the end of each line. <input file> red aunt house blue sky bat and ball game <output file> red aunt house 3 blue sky 2 bat and ball game 4 Thanks! (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mira
2 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Count and print all repeating words in a line

Gurus, I have a file containing lines like this : Now, number of words in each line varies. My need is, if a word repeats in a line get it printed. Also total number of repeats. So, the output would be : Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks & Regards (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: AshwaniSharma09
5 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Print only matching words

Hi All, I have searched the forum and tried to print only matching(pattern) words from the file, but its printing entire line. I tried with grep -w. I am on sunsolaris. Eg: cat file A|A|F1|F2|A|F3|A A|F10|F11|F14|A| F20|A|F21|A|F25 I have to search for F (F followed by numbers) and ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: gsjdrr
5 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Print all the words after a match word

Hi, I want to print all words till the last word after the match of "ERROR" word. For e.g. I'll get an sqlplus error with e.g. 1 $ ./calltest_fn.ksh var test_var:=test_fn1; calltest_fn.ksh file1 file2 file3 ERROR at line 4: ORA-06550: line 4, column 11: PLS-00201: identifier... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: dips_ag
5 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Copying x words from end of line to specific location in same line

Hello all i know it is pretty hard one but you will manage it all after noticing and calculating i find a rhythm for the file i want to edit to copy the last 12 characters in line but the problem is to add after first 25 characters in same line in other way too copy the last 12 characters... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: princesasa
10 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to print the words in the same line with space or to the predefined line?

HI, cat test abc echo "def" >> test output is cat test abc def the needed output is cat test abc def and so on (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: jobycxa
5 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Print two matched words from the same line

Hi experts I need to pick 2 matched words from the same line..... I have given below an example file eg: O14757 hsa04110 hsa04115 2 P38398 hsa04120 1 O15111 hsa04010 hsa04210 hsa04920 hsa04620 hsa04660 hsa04662 hsa05200 hsa05212 hsa05221 hsa05220 hsa05215 hsa05222 hsa05120 13 O14920... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: binnybio
4 Replies

10. Web Development

Query to print numbers in words

Hi, If i give a number say "1234" the output of mysql query should be: one thousand and twenty four How to write mysql query for this? With regards Vanitha (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: vanitham
5 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question