Pretty basic Bash question

[djcham]

Hey all,

I'm doing a grep on a bunch of files which always results in 2 lines that match. meaning that when i do :

grep "x" filename, the result will always be

1: x byebye
2: x hello

How do I only grab the second results. I want to save "x hello" but not "x byebye" How can I do this? Thanks!

[RobinVossen]

So you only want to save the last Result found?
Since I do not really 100% get your Question.

[djcham]

Hi RobinVossen

Yes! I would be saving only the last result found in a variable. Thanks!

Jon

[Franklin52]

Try this:

awk '$1=="x"{f++} f==2{print;exit}' file

Regards

[hugortega]

or just simply:

myvar=`grep "x" your_file | tail -1`