awk

AWK copy value from $1 to line below

Input file.

44

55



14
15

16

I want to get an output file.

44
44
55
55
55
55
14
15
15
16
16

I tried.

awk '{print $NF-1}' plik 
43
-1
54
-1
-1
-1
13
14
-1
15
Solution

  • What I would do:

    awk 'NF{last=$0;print;next} {print last}' file

    or

    awk 'NF{last=$0;print;next} {$0=last}1' file

    That yields:

    44
44
55
55
55
55
14
15
15
16
16

    In pseudo code, that means:

    if NF > 0; then
    last=$0
    print $0
else
    print last