> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Polhamus [mailto:meplists@;earthlink.net] > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 11:12 AM > To: Price, Erik > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: awk assistance > > > Price, Erik wrote: > > ... > > If not, the other alternative I was thinking of was the awk > > equivalent of > > > > 1. set the field separator to a slash > > 2. awk the file for the last field. > > > > I've figured out how to set the field separator (from the man page) > > but it seems I need to use a numeric variable to represent the > > field I want to print. I don't know of a way to get the last field > > for any given record/line since one one line it could be $5 and on > > another it might be $7, for example. > > awk -F/ '{print $NF}'
Works perfect. Erik _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
