From: Bo Rydberg <bolry@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 02:07:49 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: doc: fix awk example for getting penultimate field
X-Git-Tag: v8.28~89
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8d34b455f80678125b0fb6edcde2dab66986cc5d;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

doc: fix awk example for getting penultimate field

* doc/coreutils.texi (cut invocation): Add required brackets.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/26519
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 284e7e36b0..0bbb9e966f 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -5941,9 +5941,9 @@ By default @command{awk} uses (and discards) runs of blank characters
 to separate fields, and ignores leading and trailing blanks.
 @example
 @verbatim
-awk '{print $2}'    # print the second field
-awk '{print $NF-1}' # print the penultimate field
-awk '{print $2,$1}' # reorder the first two fields
+awk '{print $2}'      # print the second field
+awk '{print $(NF-1)}' # print the penultimate field
+awk '{print $2,$1}'   # reorder the first two fields
 @end verbatim
 @end example
 Note while @command{cut} accepts field specifications in