awk assistance

[Price, Erik]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Polhamus [mailto:meplists at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 11:12 AM
> To: Price, Erik
> Cc: gnhlug-discuss at gnhlug.org
> 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