Implement tail with awk

Question

Alright so here i am struggling with this awk code wich should emulate the tail command

num=$1;
{
    vect[NR]=$0;

}
END{
    for(i=NR-num;i<=NR;i++)
            


        

Answer 1

You need to add -v num=10 to the awk commandline to set the value of num. And start at NR-num+1 in your final loop, otherwise you'll end up with num+1 lines of output.