Re: sed one-liner?

Eric Pement wrote:

> Replying to Lori Barfield, who sent me this message:
> 
>> On 12/15/05, William Yardley <uuasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Anyone know a one-liner to print the next to last line in sed?
> [ ... ]
> 
>> On 12/19/05, Philip Brown <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> >     sed -n -e '/^.*$/x' -e '$p'
>> 
>> what an elegant answer.  since Mark threw down the gauntlet, i had to
>> give this a try myself.
> 
>    I decided to give it a try also. The following sed script will print
> the penultimate line (the next to last line) on a file of any length
> except a file which has only one line, in which case it prints nothing:
> 
>    sed -e '$!{h;d;};x'

How about adding

1{
  ${
    p
    q
  }
}

To overcome that limitation?

Angus




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