Hello guys.

Is there any way I can cut the last field using "cut" ???


(without putting it into a while...)

Thanks.
435 Gavea.

your question is kinda vague.

what are you trying to do that you want to avoid a while loop?

not sure how you would use the cut
but you can try this
awk '{print $NF}'

instead of cut

so if you have

line="hhh kkk lll iii ddd kkke"
then
echo $line|awk '{print $NF}'

will give you kkke

give a sample input and output, so that we can help you understand even better

You didn't like the answer you got last time?

Does the awk solution works with different delimiters ?

I was talking about something like this:

abcd/efgh/ijklm/nopq

And I'd like to "cut" only the nopq

you can specify the delimiter using the -F option

awk -F/ '{.....

try to use the man pages in case you need any information of a unix command

awk by itself is a very powerful tool. Even if your purpose is served at present I would recommend you to go through the man page of the awk filter

Besides if you search the forum for awk, you will get lotsa information

happy awking

I can also recommend the manual pages for the dirname and basename commands.