[debbugs-tracker] bug#26519: closed (Documentation for cut --fields=field-list giving faulty info on awk)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Documentation for cut --fields=field-list giving faulty info on awk Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:24:47 +0000

As seen at https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/cut-invocation.html, the section for ‘-f field-list’

‘--fields=field-list’ hints at some examples of using awk. The second example is wrong. it states:

awk '{print $NF-1}' # print the penultimate field

when it should be

awk '{print $(NF-1)}' # print the penultimate field

i.e., parenthesis missing.

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> On 14/04/17 09:24, Bo Rydberg wrote:
> > As seen at 
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/cut-invocation.html, 
> > the section for ‘-f field-list’
> > ‘--fields=field-list’ hints at some examples of using awk. The second example 
> > is wrong. it states:
> > awk '{print $NF-1}' # print the penultimate field
> > when it should be
> > awk '{print $(NF-1)}' # print the penultimate field
> > i.e., parenthesis missing.
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> Indeed. I guess that was tested with echo 1 2 3 :)
> Committed in your name at:
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.27-22-g8d34b45
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> thanks,
> Pádraig
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