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Old 04-18-2002
grep the last occurence
is there a grep or awk one-line command to print the line of the last occurence of a string in a file?
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Old 04-18-2002
i think

#grep "string" file | tail -1

will do? or is there any better way? i just thought i don't want to grep the whole file, especially if its a huge file...
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Old 04-18-2002
If you are not interested in seeing all the qualifying lines, but you just want to know which files have at least one occurrence of the grep string, then use grep -l option: grep -l xyz *
Jimbo
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Old 04-18-2002
Apalex you can pass a parameter to awk whith the FLAG -v

awk -v seek_word=<word> 'BEGIN{ ..<your_code>...}END{..<your_code>... }' file

or similar syntax see man awk. Jimbo thanks with Natty.

to compare the perfomance use the time command.
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