Need help using grep

[nativehound]

I need help greping a log. I want to pull the last line containing the word “project” in my Folding@Home log and output it to my conky.

cat FAHlog.txt | grep Project

[08:39:28] Project: 8072 (Run 0, Clone 284, Gen 48)
[19:31:37] Project: 8072 (Run 0, Clone 284, Gen 48)
[01:46:05] Project: 8072 (Run 0, Clone 284, Gen 48)
[05:47:48] Project: 8072 (Run 0, Clone 284, Ge
[05:47:50] Project: 7660 (Run 253, Clone 0, Gen 18)

How do I isolate just the last entry for “project” using grep?

[steeldriver]

pipe it through 'tail -1'? also you don't need the 'cat' e.g.

grep 'Project' FAHlog.txt | tail -1

[nativehound]

WooHoo,TY steeldriver. That was fast.

[steeldriver]

You're welcome - there may be a more elegant way of course

'grep' *does* allow you to stop after the mth match so I guess you could cat it backwards and find the first match

 tac FAHlog.txt | grep -m1 'Project'

but I doubt it's more efficient. Also the 'cat haters' will probably er.. have kittens at 'tac'

[raja.genupula]

please mark your thread as solved .

[codemaniac]

An awk solution below, however steeldriver's solution is easier to the eyes.

awk '/Project/{} END{print}' FAHlog.txt

[Vaphell]

awk '/Project/{} END{print}' FAHlog.txt

that doesn't work

$ echo $'a1\nb\na2\nc' | awk '/a/{} END{ print; }'
c
$ echo $'a1\nb\na2\nc' | awk '/a/{ x=$0; } END{ print x; }'
a2

[codemaniac]

thanks for the fix vaphell , i can see it the bug.

[darkager]

I know this is marked solved, but thanks guys. As someone new to linux (but familiar with piping via Powershell), this is the kind of stuff that helps me the most.