How to print last two columns using awk

Question

All I want is the last two columns printed.

Answer 1

using gawk exhibits the problem:

 gawk '{ print $NF-1, $NF}' filename
1 2
2 3
-1 one
-1 three
# cat filename
1 2
2 3
one
one two three

I just put gawk on Solaris 10 M4000: So, gawk is the cuplrit on the $NF-1 vs. $(NF-1) issue. Next question what does POSIX say? per:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/awk.html

There is no direction one way or the other. Not good. gawk implies subtraction, other awks imply field number or subtraction. hmm.