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Remove an unneeded 'tail -n 1' from a pipeline

Description

Remove an unneeded 'tail -n 1' from a pipeline

When piping to awk, it's almost always an anti-pattern to use 'grep'
first.

When not in a pipeline, sometimes it is faster to use tail, as awk
must process all the lines in the input stream, and won't 'seek'.
In a pipeline, both grep and awk must process all lines, so we might
as well skip the extra process creation for tail and just use awk
for all the processing.

Reviewed by: jilles
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19441

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Provenance
lidlAuthored on
Reviewer
jilles
Differential Revision
D19441: Remove an unneeded 'tail -n 1' from a pipeline
Parents
rS345004: Add IP_FW_NAT64 to codes that ipfw_chk() can return.
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